PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

The tension between ancient and modern exists throughout the developing world. Doha, January 5 – The recent World Cup contests and festivities in Qatar highlighted a salient long-term issue for the dictatorships and monarchies in the region, observers note, where ...

Huldai’s administration has faced allegations of insufficiently corrupt selection of the contractors engaged by the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality. Tel Aviv, December 29 – Following an embarrassing episode in which city contractors painted a handicapped-only parking spot around an already-parked car ...

European progressives called the development unfortunate, but a predictable outcome of Israeli policies. Bethlehem, December 25 – A group of terrorists operating in the traditionally-accepted birthplace of Jesus interdicted the passage of St. Nicholas’s reindeer-pulled vehicle tonight as it passed ...

“A plentiful supply of depressed people under our aegis.” Nablus, December 15 – Public health authorities in both the Gaza Strip and the self-rule areas of the West Bank have launched a streamlined process to address a troubling increase in the ...

by Issa Awad, Palestine Refugee Tulkarm, December 8 – The morality of the situation is clear: my forebears fled Haifa in anticipation of Arab liberators slaughtering the Jews of the city and making ample plunder available, but when that didn’t ...

“Giving out sweets doesn’t distinguish us from the myriad other factions doing it, doesn’t mark us as appealing to the right voter.” Nazareth, December 1 – Recriminations and harsh verbiage continued this week in the aftermath of a dramatic national ...

“I understand the Western reluctance to abandon the factual realm entirely,” acknowledged James Zogby. Washington, November 24 – The distant progeny of seventh-century invaders of the Levant from the Arabian Peninsula and of later immigrants from around the region voiced ...

The groups presented their report at a press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, currently serving the 95th year of his four-year term. Paris, November 17 – Human Rights groups again leveled the charge today against the Jewish State that ...

“We had some anticipation of a windfall over the next several months, perhaps up to two years out,” acknowledged Lufthansa spokesman Gerhardt von Stupp. Ben-Gurion International Airport, November 10 – Representatives of the dozens of carriers offering passenger service to ...

The Being that created the universe with the spoken word made heard what other divine beings heard as a chuckle. Heaven, November 3 – The creator ex nihilo of all existence, with complete control and absolute knowledge of every last ...