“This is… uninformed,” answered a polite Mahmoud Abbas. Ramallah, July 6 – Prominent officials in Palestinian government and society voiced surprise and confusion today when informed that you believe the welfare of everyday Palestinians matters to them. Leaders of the ...
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“It looks like there are reports of stuff happening, or about to happen, or that might happen if something doesn’t change.” Doha, July 2 – Some significant developments are going on in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, according to ...
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Officials in Riyadh, Cairo, Dubai, and elsewhere went as far as to alter photos of aerial military exercises to show their rivals’ fighters collaborating with the Israel Air Force. Riyadh, June 27 – Tensions between competing alliances of Arab and ...
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Abbas’s term officially ended more than seven years ago, and the parliamentarians should have been out of office six years ago. Moscow, June 22 – President Vladimir Putin of Russia has put on hold a series of operations aimed at ...
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Palestinian officials compared the need to pay for their own WiFi signal to the plight of Russians in besieged Leningrad during WWII. Ramallah, June 18 – Palestinians accustomed to receiving free benefits protested today at Israel’s decision to secure its ...
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It remains unclear what manner of sanctions BDS might call for against these flagrant violations of its aims. Hizmeh Post, June 13 – Cars and buses from Palestinian-administered territories line up at this security checkpoint northeast of Jerusalem each morning ...
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“In fact we deny that what those monsters are doing is cannibalism at all.” Beirut, June 7 – Community leaders among those who consume human flesh in a moderate fashion complain that they are being unfairly targeted by critics of ...
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“We’re just here to help,” added the ministry spokesman, unable to suppress a smirk. Jerusalem, June 5 – As Arab state after Arab state closes its skies to Qatar’s national carrier amid ratcheting political and diplomatic confrontation, the Jewish State ...
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“Intense obsession with destroying cars and trucks.” Baghdad, May 30 – Another vehicle laden with explosives went off this morning in the Iraqi capital, driving home the point to military and political experts that the Islamic State, responsible for the ...
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How dense do you have to be to fall for the same rhetorical trick time and time again? Athens, May 25 – A youth notorious for repeated invocation of a threat to the point that the alarm no longer raises ...
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