PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

By Holia Thanthow Western powers, especially the US, have quite a bit to answer for already, but this latest missile strike on Syria – ostensibly in response to the use of chemical weapons – adds further injustice to the world, ...

By Basher Assad, President, Syrian Arab Republic We Arabs are a proud people. Honor is perhaps the strongest value in our culture, often trumping life itself. It is a point of pride for an Arab nation to attain self-sufficiency, and ...

By Ayyaf Dayariyya, unemployed Gaza City, March 29 – I’m glad you clarified what you just said, because the first time I heard it, I could have sworn you were vowing to destroy “the Zionist Enema,” and for the life ...

By Hippo Critt, BDS Activist Berkeley, March 22 – It takes a certain amount of gall to accuse social justice activist such as I of prejudice. Just because I reserve all my vitriol for Jews doesn’t mean I’m an antisemite. ...

By the Flying Spaghetti Monster I’m not one to get all sensitive about the requirements of other religions. If you want to come close to your notion of divinity by abstaining from leavened grain products for a little over a ...

By Aiwil Qilfag, Gaza Strip Imam I do not understand you people who object to our treatment of homosexuals. What we do to them is very similar to things that you Westerners pay to have done to you, such as ...

By Al Koholik Happy Drinking Day! Or for those of you who insist on pretending it’s not about the drinking, Happy Purim. You’re welcome to get involved in explaining how and why the festival encourages imbibing wine and other intoxicants. ...

By Justin Thyme It’s nearly finished. Just a couple of rooms to go and the place will be clean and ready for Pesach 2016. This took a little longer than it should have, I know. But you get to cleaning ...

By Ali Ahmad, Al-Aqsa Activist By now everyone knows of the Jews’ ongoing attempts to render Muslim sites Jewish, especially in the old city of Al-Quds (Jerusalem). Daily disruptive visits of Jewish settlers and provocateurs at the Haram al-Sharif, where ...

By Lena Dunham I’m sure I’m not the only one thrilled to see how many people have mobilized online – and occasionally in person – to mock Donald Trump. The scale of involvement in the sacred work of ridiculing his ...