PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

The Ukraine crisis, has made the situation tense enough that his parents are primed to believe anything about Russian capabilities and intentions. Kiryat Bialik, March 10 – A local adolescent expressed relief today that Putin’s forces have been disrupting geolocation service ...

Israel’s Arab and Muslim foes have been relegated to an area barely more than a hundred times Israel’s size, and they feel the squeeze. Jerusalem, March 9 – An ethnic cohort composing the overwhelming majority of the Middle East’s demographics ...

“Bibi was horrible, don’t get me wrong, but this… this is differently horrible.” Jerusalem, March 8 – Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his cabinet ministers, and fellow Coalition members have evidently decided to demonstrate to the Israeli public that ousting the ...

“And don’t get me started on dishes. My thinking has really, really come around of late on the whole Biblical miracle thing. It’s much more plausible now.” Mevasseret Tzion, March 7 – A mother of three children in this middle-class Jerusalem suburb ...

They plan to spend the next several years gallivanting various places, because their services appear unneeded for at least that long. London, March 4 – Researchers from a prominent international human rights organization informed journalists today that now that their work ...

A bigotry that Europeans thought they had vanquished in their society long ago. Frankfurt, March 23 – Europeans who view attacks targeting synagogues and related community institutions as a legitimate form of protest against Jerusalem’s policies vis-à-vis Palestinians now find ...

by Josep Borell, European Commission Foreign Policy Chair Brussels, March 2 – My favorite foreign policy fiction that everyone pretends true involves the underwriting, support, and guidance for projects that ostensibly grew out of organic, local efforts, when in fact ...

Witnesses observed Cherniak driving the vehicle to the grocery store and back, forced to take a roundabout route because of a traffic signal that hung too low to allow the vehicle passage with its missile rack elevated to operational height. ...

“At least Palestinians have the support of antisemites who astroturf that cause, because it opposes Jewish safety.” Idlib, March 20 – Residents of this Arab Republic who lost loved ones to aerial bombing by Russia’s air force, or who suffered ...

“They’re inflicting more damage on the occupiers than we ever have, certainly in so short a time! Something doesn’t add up.” Gaza City, February 27 – Activists, militants, and residents of this beleaguered coastal territory voiced puzzlement this week at ...