PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

By Dominic Lord, human rights activist Tel Aviv, May 23 – We activists take our role seriously: forming alliances, raising awareness, generating political pressure, and partying till all hours in this fabulous city. This is where the human rights action ...

“Something, anything to prevent the reader from getting the wrong idea that the Palestinian issue mustn’t dominate human consciousness.” Tel Aviv, May 19 – Tragedy struck the Middle East today when a careless reporter omitted the geopolitical context of an ...

Humans abandoned Yarmouk eighty thousand years ago, but the remaining creatures maintain the ancient fight. Damascus, May 8 – Few living things remain on Earth, but the small number of protozoa, bacteria, and other microscopic life forms inhabiting an area ...

“It’s encouraging that Hamas appears to be looking beyond victory at what actual policy looks like in the absence of their lifelong enemy.” Gaza City, May 1 – Military planners of the Islamist movement that governs this territory conducted a missile test ...

“And boom, so to speak, large numbers of people direct sympathy toward those who are not only non-Muslim, but victims of violence by Muslims. It’s going to take some time to digest this.” Washington, April 24 – Waves of empathy ...

By Shir Dimensha, Professor of Comparative Literature New York, April 17 – The quantity of self-identifying progressives in our society has grown steadily in recent decades, in volume if not absolute numbers, but the best way to demonstrate one’s seriousness ...

Tradition dictates the use of blood from a murdered Christian child, but in recent decades Palestinian children of all varieties have all but taken their place, owing to plentiful supply. Jerusalem, April 10 – The expanding selection of top-flight culinary ...

Calls to sack the professor came from figures in and out of the government. Cairo, April 3 – An academic at Cairo University has sparked a tumult in national media and political circles this week following a televised interview in ...

Hamas sympathizers, meanwhile, insisted that the movement does not target civilians with its genocidal rhetoric. Gaza City, March 27 – For the third time this week, the Islamist terrorist group that runs this coastal territory sought to assure the international ...

Collectivization of agriculture and a poor harvest in 1932-33 led to the death by starvation of anywhere from 3-12 million Ukrainians and Moldavians. Washington, DC, March 20 – Millions of famine-related deaths in the largely-Christian Ukraine and Moldavia Republics of ...