“We’ve worked the ‘Al Aqsa is in danger’ trope past death, so we’re looking to develop more robust fig leaves to provide a semblance of a pretext for trying to kill as many Jews as possible.” Iata, near Hebron, October 23 ...
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Abbas has reportedly spent the weeks since the award announcement alternately brooding and lashing out at staff. Ramallah, October 19 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is still sore that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee spurned him as a recipient of ...
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‘Can’t this guy take a hint?’ Washington, Ocotber 14 – With US Secretary of State John Kerry announcing yet another trip to the Mideast, trying once again to restart a moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process, officials on both sides could not suppress ...
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“Limiting the celebratory sweets smacks of vindictiveness, and only further feeds the cycle of violence.” Gaza City, October 13 – Residents of this coastal territory are fuming over the Israeli blockade, saying it restricts their access to the sweets and ...
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“The sophisticated BBC reader or viewer cannot be trusted to come to the correct conclusion without that context.” Jerusalem, October 9 – Editors at the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Jerusalem Bureau have given correspondents the green light to report on the spasms ...
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Gunness pointed to several online collections of the extracurricular hate and violence-promotion in which UNRWA teachers excel, helpfully compiled by bloggers and UN watchdog groups. Amman, Jordan, September 30 – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees ...
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“It strikes us as curious, to say the least, that not a single Jewish death was recorded in the country not only on the day of the stampede, but for decades.” Mina, Saudi Arabia, September 29 – Investigators into last ...
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New York, September 2 – Banking on the success of an initiative in the Rafah area to shield Egypt from the unpleasantness emanating from neighboring Gaza, the country’s delegation to the United Nations plans to create a similar zone between its ...
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The Russian leader assured the international community that if such episodes occur, his soldiers would only stand on the sidelines and cheer. Moscow, September 16 – Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to assuage international concern over his country’s growing military ...
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“Here they can live free lives, and no one will threaten to expose them to non-Edward-Saidian thought.” Doha, Qatar, September 9 – Amid growing attention to oil-rich countries around the Persian Gulf not absorbing any of the millions of people fleeing ...
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