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“Frustration for a family that has to wade through throngs of misbehaving day-campers just to miss a shot at a bad stuffed imitation of a popular animated character… that’s what it’s all about.” Tel Aviv, August 18 – The director ...

“It’s a longtime problem,” agreed Abbig Hattub, assistant manager of a Jericho-area water park that has never cut back on its water use. Jericho, August 16 – A high-ranking functionary of Mahmoud Abbas’s government blamed Israel for exacerbating the shortage of ...

“Does the importance of their suffering and their status as victims of injustice exist only while it can serve as leverage for the true cause, Palestine?” Chattanooga, August 11 – A man who campaigns for the recognition of indigenous status ...

“In a word, inertia.” Jerusalem, July 28 – Party leaders, campaign consultants, and aspiring legislators continued this week to prepare for parliamentary elections later this year, with some of the largest parties settling on the one message they must convey to ...

By Rafael Shimunov, Jews For Racial and Economic Justice Brooklyn, July 21 – The familiar, cynical tactic of taking an unrepresentative slice of a group and holding them up as representative of the larger demographic features in the hasbara efforts of ...

“I’m still saying Kaddish for my mother.” Jerusalem, July 14 – A stalwart supporter of this city’s Premier League team, known for the jingoistic, often-racist, and sometimes-violent passion of its core demographic, plans to return from this evening’s match too ...

“It’s definitely been a challenge.” Ramallah, July 7 – The sea change underway in the Middle East involving the acceptance and integration of Israel into a region once uniformly hostile to the Jewish State continues among numerous avenues, such as the reworking ...

“Games such as ‘tag’ and ‘Capture the Flag’ induce them to trample the land with their unhygienic, ‘filthy,’ if you will, feet, violating the sensibilities of Palestinians everywhere.” Jerusalem, June 30 – Progressive American NGOs have dispatched researchers to examine ...

“The Palestinian Arab reaction has inspired us to cope with our legacy of suffering in the same way.” Berlin, June 23 – German government officials announced today that henceforth, the country will observe the ninth of May to highlight the displacement ...

By Marwan Shibli, Palestinian activist Gaza City, June 19 – Too much misunderstanding and willful distortion of the Palestinian position pervade the rhetoric surrounding the issue, to the point that many people wrongly assume we aim to kill every Jew between ...