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Ahmadinejad Discovers He Is a Jew Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, March 1 – After two terms leading his country in a staunchly anti-Israel, and, many would say, anti-Semitic direction, former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discovered his own Jewish roots yesterday. Unpacking from the move away from the Presidential Palace in the capital city, Ahmadinejad came across old photos of …
Israel, Palestinians Issue Joint Statement That Kerry Looks Funny Jerusalem, February 28 – Another round of shuttle diplomacy by US Secretary of State John Kerry has succeeded in getting Israel and the Palestinians to agree to a statement that the Secretary’s appearance resembles a caricature. In what has become a rare point of consensus between the two sides, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli …
Palestinian Refugees Welcome Arab Apartheid; ‘For Our Own Good’ Amman, Jordan, February 23 – This week, as organizations on college campuses around the globe try to draw attention to what activists have labeled Israel’s “Apartheid” policies governing Palestinians, Palestinian refugees are emphasizing that the even harsher treatment they receive at the hands of neighboring Arab countries is, well, different, because, well, you had to …
Arab Despots Puzzled At Ukrainian Refusal To Mow Down Protesters Damascus, February 22 – In the wake of a popular uprising in Ukraine that resulted in the deposing of Viktor Yanukovich as president, leaders throughout the Middle East are expressing bewilderment that the authorities in Kiev did not immediately resort to crushing dissent with machine guns, tanks, air strikes, and mass torture. Following months of …
Study: Arab-Israeli Conflict Source Of 85% Of World’s Bull$#!@ Washington, DC, February 19 – A new study by an independent think tank shows that the lion’s share of BS in the world stems from the conflict between Israel and its neighbors. Environmental and rhetorical scientists from the Center for Research and Analysis of Politics (CRAP) analyzed the quantity and source of the world’s current …
US Boldly Almost Considering Maybe Weighing Possibility of Mulling Syria Involvement Washington, DC, February 17 – Fresh from a trip to the Middle East and eager to showcase American decisiveness and will, US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters today that the Obama administration is seriously considering leaning in the direction of talking seriously about examining the ways in which the US might convey its …
European Scientists Find Palestinian Gene For Blamelessness 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 TMIM-4, which codes for lack of culpability, is present in multiple copies in the Palestinian …
Oldest Star Discovered; Palestinians: We Were There First 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 sky identified SMSS J031300.36-670839.3, as the oldest observed star so far, based on its spectrum of …
Dementors Leave Gaza Strip; ‘Our Work Here Is Done’ 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 Arab forces and the isolated Jewish kibbutz of Kfar Darom, the Gaza Strip has been …
Tel Aviv University Retracts Nasrallah Invitation; ‘Too Zionist’ 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 the invitation for a conference on post-Zionism to take place early next month. Nasrallah was …
Starving, Besieged Palestinian Refugees In Syria Thrilled That Pro-Palestinian Activists Focusing On Scarlett Johansson 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 supporters overseas for the latter’s noisy attention to an American actress’s endorsement deals. Syrian forces …
Saudi Arabia Outlaws Women Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 29 – The Saudi government announced today it will outlaw women, calling them a threat to the moral fabric of society. As of February 1, anyone in possession of a woman will face fines or imprisonment, with more severe terms for possession of multiple women. Producers of women will face the …
UN Insecurity Council Denounces Self New York, NY (AP) – Meeting behind closed doors because of what others might think of them, the United Nations Insecurity Council took up the matter of the violence in and around the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and wound up denouncing itself. “Who are we to judge the complex situation as if we have …
Iran President Promises “Prudent, Moderate” Annihilation of Israel Davos, Switzerland, January 23 – President Hassan Rouhani of Iran put forth a more diplomatic face today, telling reporters and dignitaries that his country would pursue its aims through a careful course of action, one of “constructive engagement” with the goal of destroying Israel. Attending the World Economic Forum, Rouhani sought to calm observers, pledging …
Mass Demonstrations Calling For U.S. Intervention In Syria Continue Not To Happen Traffic inside the D.C. Beltway was not disrupted. Washington, January 23 – Two years since the start of an uprising against Basher Al-Assad’s rule, millions of people did not gather in public places across the U.S. to demand that the United States intervene to protect the Syrian populace from government forces. Tens of thousands of …
Netanyahu Hires Vizzini To Start US War With Iran Jerusalem, January 16 – Information leaked from Israeli cabinet intelligence briefings suggests that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has engaged a Sicilian mercenary to foment a war between the United States and Iran. Long dismissive of American and other international efforts to contain Tehran’s nuclear arms ambitions, Netanyahu is seeking ways to provoke American military action …
Race To Politicize Pope’s Mideast Visit Begins Jerusalem (AP) – Pope Francis announced yesterday that he would be visiting the Holy Land in May of this year, setting off a scramble among Israelis and Palestinians to score propaganda points in their ongoing conflict and to leverage the publicity of the visit to imply papal endorsement of their respective positions. Francis announced his …
Tragedy Strikes As Gaza Strip Fails To Sink Into Mediterranean As a consequence, the area continues to suffer from appalling mismanagement, incitement to violence, soaring unemployment, inadequate sewage, and increased radicalization. Gaza City, Gaza Strip, January 5 – The Gaza Strip was not struck by a massive earthquake that separated it from the rest of the Eurasian-African land mass and submerged it in the sea …
New York (AP) – The world was treated for a pulled jaw muscle today after yawning at the car bombing in a Beirut suburb yesterday. Doctors at New York’s Bellevue Hospital reported that that patient was admitted to the ER, treated, and released. A powerful explosion caused extensive damage and killed five passers by on …
New York (AP) – A rapid deterioration of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s condition has journalists scrambling to update their files in case the publication of an obituary becomes necessary in the coming hours or days. Sharon, 85, suffered a stroke eight years ago that resulted in his current comatose state. The former general’s …
Jerusalem (AP) – A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today lamented Israel’s execution of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann in 1962, noting that the architect of the Final Solution could have been released with other killers of Jews this evening. 26 Palestinians imprisoned for the murders of Israelis in terrorism attacks over the last …
Kiryat Shmonah, Israel, December 29 (AP) – One of five rockets fired from Lebanon hit near this northern Israeli town today, and the IDF responded fiercely with dozens of artillery shells aimed at empty fields, rocky hillsides, and unpopulated cedar groves. The impressive display of deterrence came amid heightened tensions along the border, where an …
Book Accuses Jews of Controlling Israeli Government London, July 9 – In a new twist on an age-old stereotype, a British Muslim author’s newest work charges that a relatively small number of Jews effectively controls the workings of Israel, a country that most people consider a democracy. Hadda Nuffadis, a Liverpool-born Muslim of Indian descent, writes in From Russia with Glove that the “hidden …
Jerusalem, Israel (AP) – After several fruitless weeks of back-and-forth negotiations over so-called Final Status issues over which Israelis and Palestinians differ, the delegates to the talks have decided to abandon the effort and watch The Princess Bride repeatedly instead. The talks, conducted in secret, have apparently yielded no results yet on questions of: Palestinian refugees; the …
Washington, DC (AP) – President Obama has instructed the State Department to end its four-year-old attempt to convince Israelis to resolve the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians and other Arab nations by voluntarily drowning themselves in the Mediterranean Sea. The decision was greeted with disappointment by representatives of Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. …
Sheikh Jarrah Quarter, Jerusalem (AP) – Fuad Abu Hamed, 46, got through the biggest snowstorm in the Levant in a generation by huddling together with his family through power outages in the bitter cold by telling himself the Jewish authorities would surely send along some crews to clear major arteries and fix hazards created by …
Khan Yunis refugee camp, Gaza Strip (AP) – Times may be tough, but Hamas designers are busy releasing their winter 2014 looks for the suicide-vest-wearing crowd, and the new offerings are to die for. Or in. Chief Hamas fashion designer Mahmoud A-Zahar has completely revamped the classic martyr look, replacing the traditional bulky vest and …
Paris, France (Reuters) – A government-commissioned analysis of the late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat’s remains has concluded that he did not die of poisoning, as some Palestinians had charged, but by natural causes. Arafat died in 2004 and no autopsy was conducted at the time. The report also noted that Francisco Franco, who took power …
Arafat’s Widow: Israel Also Used Polonium To Kill Jesus Lausanne, Switzerland – In the wake of forensic evidence that the radioactive element Polonium-210 was present in some of the personal effects that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had with him when he died, his widow Suha Arafat sees the hand of Israel in this and other deaths of prominent icons as far back as …
New York, October 2 (AP) – Following Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s fiery address to the UN General Assembly, the New York Times issued a sternly worded editorial chastising the premier for closing the door on the annihilation of Israel as a diplomatic solution to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons capability. Netanyahu had warned the …