PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Mosul, Iraq, September 4 – The Fox network sent ripples through the entertainment industry today with the news that it inked a deal with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to produce a reality series focusing on a group ...

Alexandria, Egypt, August 31 – Mohammad El-Bir is your typical blue-collar Egyptian: struggling economically, hoping for political stability, and certain that Israel is the chief cause of the world’s problems. Pictures of the recent carnage in the Gaza Strip, however, ...

Bronx Zoo, New York, August 25 – Sophie, a hyacinth macaw in the Bronx Zoo Aviary, expressed wonderment today at the uncanny ability of The New York Times and other media enterprises to echo the anti-Israel claims of Palestinians uncritically. ...

Gaza City, August 19 – With the emerging ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian factions apparently calling for Fatah to assume control of border crossings and other vital interests instead of Hamas, the leader of the latter movement are voicing ...

Damascus, Syria, August 14 – Now that a cease-fire has taken effect between Israel and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, international attention is returning to anything but the ongoing civil war in Syria. The war, which has claimed more than 150,000 ...

Geneva, August 12 – The newly announced chairman of the UN Human Rights Council’s investigative commission into possible war crimes in the recent conflict in Gaza has informed reporters that, unfortunately, the commission’s limited allotment of available slots for members ...

Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, August 6 – Among the many troubles plaguing this battered coastal Palestinian enclave, local confectioners are lamenting a lack of the right color sprinkles with which to decorate the sweets they will distribute when an Israeli ...

Rafah, August 9 – After activists created a mess at a UN-run school by dragging corpses onto the grounds of the facility to make it look like the IDF had targeted the school itself, the agency that runs the school ...

Jerusalem, July 29 – After three weeks of intense fighting and no clear end in sight, Israel unveiled a new weapon in its conflict with Hamas today, announcing that if the Islamist organization that rules the Gaza Strip does not ...

Caracas, Venezuela, July 23 – A government-sponsored geological study of Venezuela has turned up no evidence of war crimes by the militant Hamas organization, the BBC reported today. Hamas runs the Gaza Strip and is currently engaged in hostilities with ...