PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

"Correlation and causation become really hard to tease apart here.”

"Someone needs to be gassed over this."

"You're pretending not to understand because you're being paid. Or blackmailed."

by Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Israel is both a fragile client state dependent on Washington’s largesse and an all-powerful lobby that puppeteers the entire U.S. government.

The For Olim - Overdue Decency (FOOD) Party promises to impose standards.

“We have standards."

"I'll have to ask my off-the-derekh friend abou- I mean, if I had any off-the-derekh friends, I could ask them about it.”

"They're going to need a much more impressive collection of DVDs before anyone takes them seriously."

"This is basically Reform. I doubt it's even halakhically valid.”