It’s the Jews pursuing success and prosperity only to make Palestinians, and Arabs in general, look like backward barbarians by comparison. Damascus, July 19 – Just a few dozen kilometers to the southwest of the Syrian capital, Israeli soldiers have ...
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Precise casualty figures on the giftwrap-related disaster are hard to come by, but estimates range from just under 300,000 dead to more than 500,000. Homs, Syria, July 17 – Half a million people were killed across the region this decade ...
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The official described the diplomatic consequences as a secondary goal of the move, with the primary aim inflicting political damage on rival Hamas. Ramallah, July 12 – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas intends to follow up on the severe reduction ...
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“This is… uninformed,” answered a polite Mahmoud Abbas. Ramallah, July 6 – Prominent officials in Palestinian government and society voiced surprise and confusion today when informed that you believe the welfare of everyday Palestinians matters to them. Leaders of the ...
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“It looks like there are reports of stuff happening, or about to happen, or that might happen if something doesn’t change.” Doha, July 2 – Some significant developments are going on in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, according to ...
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Officials in Riyadh, Cairo, Dubai, and elsewhere went as far as to alter photos of aerial military exercises to show their rivals’ fighters collaborating with the Israel Air Force. Riyadh, June 27 – Tensions between competing alliances of Arab and ...
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Abbas’s term officially ended more than seven years ago, and the parliamentarians should have been out of office six years ago. Moscow, June 22 – President Vladimir Putin of Russia has put on hold a series of operations aimed at ...
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Palestinian officials compared the need to pay for their own WiFi signal to the plight of Russians in besieged Leningrad during WWII. Ramallah, June 18 – Palestinians accustomed to receiving free benefits protested today at Israel’s decision to secure its ...
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It remains unclear what manner of sanctions BDS might call for against these flagrant violations of its aims. Hizmeh Post, June 13 – Cars and buses from Palestinian-administered territories line up at this security checkpoint northeast of Jerusalem each morning ...
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“In fact we deny that what those monsters are doing is cannibalism at all.” Beirut, June 7 – Community leaders among those who consume human flesh in a moderate fashion complain that they are being unfairly targeted by critics of ...
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