PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“It certainly sounds like one of ours.” Jenin, November 18 – Broadcast, online, and print advertisements touting an annual reduction in prices and augmented inventory to launch the winter holiday shopping season caused some confusion among Palestinians this week, owing ...

“Our own distribution of rainfall is not calibrated to handle an overflow of this magnitude, even accounting for the capacity of the reservoirs behind dams we open each winter to flood the Gaza Strip.” Tel Aviv, November 11 – Israel’s secret intelligence ...

“When I ask them to explain the concept of ‘not killing Israelis,’ they look at me like I’m the one who’s talking gibberish.” Ramallah, November 2 – Civil society groups working for Palestinian independence acknowledged difficulty today in comprehending the insistence of ...

His bond with the land is so strong, he would rather skedaddle to Beirut or Damascus than stand and fight the Jews for possession. Haifa, October 24, 1947 – An Arab resident of this mixed-ethnicity city in the north of ...

“We need more dead cops, just as we need more dead Jews, if we are to make the world a better place.” Washington, October 13 – Just weeks after constituting the tiny congressional minority that opposed funding for Israel’s civilian ...

Much of Euro-American foreign policy over the last decades has relied on strongmen to impose decisions on the populace in the various non-democratic nations. Ramallah, October 5 – Supporters of the current Palestinian Authority president and his ruling faction remain wary ...

Whenever and wherever Israel appears to be doing something positive, look for a sinister ulterior motive. The Hague, September 13 – Activists on behalf of Palestinian rights continue their efforts to seek justice, with one group organizing around the goal ...

“They prioritize their rocket use for something other than killing Jews…?” Gaza City, September 30 – A series of attacks on Hamid Karzai International Airport by various militant Islamist groups has residents of this coastal enclave and others farther inland ...

Hamas was among the first to congratulate the Taliban this week. Gaza City, August 19 – Leaders of the Islamist militant movement that governs this coastal territory have noticed the catastrophic track record of American efforts to produce quality military ...

Perhaps even an outright utterance of, “Terrible, just terrible.” New York, August 10 – Representatives of global organizations and of nations touting themselves as defenders of the global order fired back today at Israeli and Jewish advocates, arguing that, contrary ...