PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Stockholm, February 13 – Geneticists at the Royal Swedish Academy say they have isolated the segment of DNA that accounts for automatic blamelessness among Palestinians, the European Journal of Medicine reported today. European researchers say that the gene known as ...

Jerusalem, February 12 – The tension surrounding the Hadassah Hospital debt crisis increased today when the country largest labor union accused striking hospital personnel of picketing out of turn when it was supposed to be the union’s turn to disrupt ...

Canberra, Australia, February 11 – Astronomers in Australia have discovered what they say is the oldest star known so far, prompting Palestinian officials to claim their ancestors inhabited that star long before any Jews came along. Scientists mapping the southern ...

Rafah Crossing, Gaza Strip, February 10 – This morning saw the last of the Dementors cross the border into Egypt, marking the end of the group’s sixty-six-year mission in the coastal enclave. Since fighting began in late 1947 between Egyptian ...

London, February 9 – Veteran British Broadcasting Corporation reporter Peter Philips said today that he regretted reporting matter-of-factly on an attack by Palestinians against an Israeli motorist, and promised that he will redouble his efforts to always include something negative ...

By US Secretary of State John Kerry You Israelis have done a wonderful job building up the place. It would certainly be unfortunate if something bad happened to it. Hey, I’m not threatening. I’m just telling you, there are plenty ...

Jerusalem, Israel (AP) – Jesus of Nazareth, proclaimed the King Messiah by his followers and a spiritual guide to nearly two billion people, after returning as promised, expressed dismay this week at the nearly absolute non-Jewishness of those who venerate ...

Munich, Germany, February 6  – The chief Palestinian negotiator in talks with Israel has asked the world to “punish” the Jewish state for its racism, as he pursues the formation of a state next door in which Jews will not ...

Tel Aviv, February 5 – Tel Aviv University has taken back its invitation to have Hassan Nasrallah address the students and faculty, after several professors and student activists complained that the Hezbollah leader was insufficiently anti-Zionist. The university had issued ...

Yarmuk Refugee Camp, Syria, February 4 – Syrian troops surround this crowded, dangerous camp as snipers, starvation, and lack of medicine takes the lives of dozens of its residents, but the Palestinian refugees living here are expressing gratitude to their ...