“When we realized the international sporting community didn’t care about Dubai’s use of slave labor to prepare for the World Cup, we knew we had a chance.” Gaza City, March 18 – The International Olympic Committee announced today (Wednesday) that ...
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Organizers have declined to say whether legendary Qassam Brigades leader Muhammad Deif will give a TED Talk. Gaza City, March 14 – One of the world’s leading practitioners in the art of strapping on explosives and detonating them in a crowd ...
Read More »Privation Driving Gazans To Penile Enlargement
Pensions to the families of Palestinians killed while trying to kill Israelis are only being paid at 100%. Rafah Crossing, Gaza Strip, March 8 – Life in this Palestinian coastal enclave has become so challenging under enforced Israeli and Egyptian border ...
Read More »Palestinians To Boycott Israeli Currency, Use Barter Economy
After June, only banks will be allowed to hold Israeli currency, which they will be forced to surrender in exchange for underage brides by the first of August. Ramallah, March 2 – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced today that ...
Read More »Morally Consistent BDS To Target Saudi Arabia Any Day Now
“It’s possible they know something we don’t,” admitted Middle East scholar N. T. Semitt. Riyadh, February 22 – Despite vehement and vocal demonstrations of concern for human rights on college campuses across the United States in the form of student ...
Read More »UAE Sends Troops To Help Jordan Fight Free Speech
“Oppression must be homegrown, like oil.” Amman, February 17 – After a lull in military moves by the United Arab Emirates, Jordanian and Emirati officials confirmed today that the two countries would run joint operations to roll back some of ...
Read More »Photos Capture Shape-Shifting Jews In Action, Framing Muslims
Absent specific evidence, the theories regarding how the Jews pulled it off have been as diverse as thought in the Islamist world is not. Cairo, February 10 – A series of rare images of Jews in the process of transforming into ...
Read More »ISIS Leader Caught Without Underage Bride
Choudry expressed concern that such behavior on the part of Baghdadi might tarnish the name of Islam. Somewhere near the Iraq/Syria border, February 3 – The head of the Islamic State found himself embroiled in a scandal today when visiting ...
Read More »Egypt Bans Dying During Protests
The announcement elicited objections from the Association of Funeral Directors, who accused the government of harming their livelihood. Cairo, January 28 – Renewed civil unrest over the last week has prompted an Egyptian government concerned about its image to outlaw ...
Read More »Amid Oil Price Drop, Hezbollah To Hold Bake Sale
The event will take place in the schoolyard of the Imad Mughniyah Primary School in the Dahiyeh neighborhood, between the hours of 4 and 6 pm. Beirut, January 27 – A nearly 50-percent plunge in the price of crude oil ...
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