PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Menlo Park, CA, August 6 – In a follow up paper to Facebook’s controversial emotional manipulation study, Facebook researchers have found that posts reporting and commenting on military or terrorist actions overseas have a statistically significant impact on people’s moods. ...

Solna, Sweden, August 6 – The manufacturer of one of the world’s most prominent baby carriers has announced a line of products to cater to newly emerging demand in the Middle East, a carrier to serve as a back-friendly way ...

Cairo, July 30 – Increasing alienation between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama has prompted Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to propose that he mediate talks aimed at bridging the chasm separating the two administrations. The ...

Paris, July 22 – Members of Paris’s Jewish community voiced relief today, following a riot by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who ransacked Jewish-owned businesses and threatened Jews, that Jew-hatred in Europe no longer exists. It has long been claimed that a sovereign ...

New York, July 16 – New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet expressed surprise today upon discovering the word “terrorist” in the dictionary, to the point that he repeatedly showed the entry to every other person in the newsroom he ...

Washington, DC, July 10 – The government of the last country to use saturation bombing in combat is admonishing Israel to exercise restraint in its handling of the current offensive in the Gaza Strip. In 1965, the Unites States Air ...

Paris, July 7 – Israeli police arrested six suspects in the murder last week of an Arab teenager, leading to the highest levels of smugness in the European atmosphere in decades. At least fifty people were reported hospitalized across Scandinavia ...

Brussels, July 1 – The chief of European Union foreign policy spoke out against the remains of three Israeli teenagers today, criticizing them for being found on land the Palestinians claim. Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, ...

Xinjiang, China, June 25 – Persistent unrest in this heavily Muslim region has led Chinese authorities to crack down on the native Uighur population, killing at least 13 and sentencing hundreds more to incarceration or execution, leading the United Nations ...

Washington, June 19 – First Lady Michelle Obama stepped into the political fray over the three kidnapped Israeli teens today, posting a photo to Twitter with her holding a sign referring to the abduction. The content of the sign served ...