PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“Can Gaza be the only place in the world where lightning triggers military equipment? That wouldn’t make sense.” Damascus, Nov 17 – The President of the Syrian Arab Republic smacked himself on the forehead today following receipt of a report ...

“The will of the people is dangerous to our careers.” Ramallah, November 5 – The President of the Palestinian Authority believes public opinion surveys showing the deep unpopularity of him personally and of his governing faction among Palestinians, even though ...

“Those Zionists can keep their democracy. I’m still going to bash them for depriving Palestinians of democracy, though.” Cairo, October 28 – Citizens and residents of numerous states in the Levant and beyond voiced a sense of having dodged a ...

Survival in defiance of the odds facing such an immunocompromised patient will indicate increased likelihood of foul play. Jerusalem, October 22 – A high-ranking Palestinian official undergoing treatment at a leading Israeli medical facility threatened negative outcomes for the Jewish State in ...

“The map, the image of ‘historic Palestine’ that supposedly got torn apart by Zionist-European settler-colonialism, precisely conforms to borders that British and French colonial powers drew to suit their imperialistic goals.” Beirut, October 12 – Middle Eastern regimes that expend ...

In contrast, Egypt and Jordan have refrained from total normalization of ties, and continue to traffic in antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories. Manama, September 30 – Two states that established formal relations with Israel after decades of explicit support for ...

Behind it all, official incompetence and criminal negligence led to disastrous consequences. Beirut, September 16 – Wildfires raging in the westernmost of the US’s forty-eight states have grown so fierce, observers noted today, that buildings and entire port facilities all ...

The right that only the leadership possesses: to put to death, by whatever means, any persons standing between it and expanding across the land like a plague. Tehran, September 7 – Officials of the Islamic Republic lamented today the ongoing ...

The forty-ninth week in a row that the number has failed to break out of single digits. Ramallah, August 27 – Inspectors replaced the digit today on a placard that tracks the time since the Palestinian leadership has squandered a chance to ...

“That came as news to me, even though it’s been in all of our reports, my aides tell me.” Geneva, August 18 – Human rights groups reacted to last week’s sudden announcement of diplomatic and commercial ties between Israel and ...