PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Berkeley, California, May 14 – Advocates of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement against Israel expressed frustration today that their lobbying efforts targeting major cultural figures have yet to elicit a commitment from the world’s most famous composer not to appear ...

Jerusalem, May 10 – Lawmakers opposed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s latest legislation proposal are challenging the notion that a Jewish country, born of millennia of Jewish longing for a homeland, and embodying the dreams and prophecies of countless Jews ...

Jerusalem, May 2 – At the behest of the Knesset Committee on Ceremonies and Symbols, this year’s official Yom Haatzmaut ceremonies will feature fourteen prominent women who have made important contributions to Israeli society and culture, a decision that has ...

Jerusalem, April 26 – The party that functioned for many years as a kingmaker in Israel’s governing coalitions has fallen on hard electoral times, and is considering bringing its charismatic leader back from the dead to help similarly resurrect its ...

Ramallah, April 19 – After a delegation of left-wing Israeli lawmakers insisted that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had expressed his disgust at the Monday night shooting near Hebron that left an Israeli father dead, dozens of the leader’s representatives and ...

1. Myth: Other countries’ support for Arab positions vis-à-vis Israel results from their dependence on Arab states’ considerable reserves of dead-dinosaur-derived petroleum. Fact: Dinosaurs account for little, if any, of the oil deposits in the world. Petroleum comes primarily from ...

Jerusalem, April 4 – Law enforcement agencies in Israel’s capital are warning that the high rate at which local women are subject to verbal or physical unpleasantness on the basis of their sex cannot be maintained, and that the desired ...

Tel Aviv, March 28 – Israeli organizations opposed to Israel’s settlements and policies toward the Palestinians expressed puzzlement today after the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly condemned North Korea and Russia, respectively, without singling out Israel for opprobrium. ...

Jerusalem, March 23 – Half a dozen Israeli lawmakers were taken for medical treatment today after they engaged in political posturing that their bodies could not handle. Four of the six were reacting to the trial verdict of MK Muhammad ...

Geneva – The United nations Security Council issued a condemnation of the Jewish people today, following Mordechai’s refusal to prostrate himself before Haman, another of the King Ahashverosh’s ministers. The resolution called the refusal “a deplorable act of intolerance,” and ...