PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Suspension of the organized protests does not mean Hamas or its Islamist allies in the Gaza Strip will suspend other attempts to kill Jews. Gaza City, December 31 – The militant Islamist group that governs this coastal territory announced this week it has ...

The discovery will not change official Palestinian plans. Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority, December 19 – Nonplussed community and government officials expressed puzzlement and surprise today upon encountering the fact that the public display of yuletide symbols includes no traditional elements geared ...

Not for lack of trying. Near Gaza border fence with Israel, December 11 – Organizers of the once-weekly violent demonstrations against Israel at this location today confessed experiencing unprecedented built-up tension since last month’s bursts of rocket fire into Jewish ...

“The only way to remedy this is to transform IDF policy to match the preconceived image that dovetails with what prompts our funding sources  in Europe.” Tel Aviv, December 2 – The leader of Israel’s main far-left delegation in the Knesset called ...

“The narcissism of the era has really warped people’s common sense.” Damascus, November 21 – Israeli airstrikes hit weapons storage facilities and equipment in and around the Syrian capital two nights ago, with at least one attempted interception of an ...

“I would not rule out a Zionist conspiracy to drain anti-Zionist imagery of its emotive power. It would be just like them.” Jerusalem, November 12 – A caricature of Israel’s prime minister depicting him as a bloodthirsty, swastika-wearing, land-stealing, child-killing rapist somehow ...

“No one talks about Palestine except for every organ of the UN, a disproportionate number of NGOs, and tens of thousands of political and cultural figures.” Ramallah, October 31 – Academics and political advocates focusing on the Middle East in ...

Decades of AP framing have helped cement in the popular consciousness the image of the greedy, violent, usurping Israeli Jew as the starting point for any news involving Israel. Jerusalem, October 10 – A leading news organization whose decisions on terminology ...

“I suppose we could light the money on fire beforehand, which would be an apt symbolic act.” Gaza City, September 25 – More effective implementation of restrictions on the movement of goods and people into and out of this coastal ...

Minority advocacy group Adva demanded that the IDF at once begin using target silhouettes of a different color. Somewhere near Beersheva, Negev Desert, September 16 – Black, humanoid paper shapes affixed to posts at this Israeli military facility serve to ...