Unlike every single neighboring country, which the pope has never criticized in such strident terms. Rome, March 6 - The head of the Roman Catholic Church voiced his displeasure today with the one state in the Levant and surrounding region where the number of adherents of his faith has actually grown in the last hundred years, because that state fails to live up to a moral standard that the Church appears to demand not of its adherents, but of the Jews who run that one state.

by Saleh Aljafarawi, AKA Mr. FAFO Gaza City, March 5 - This past Sunday, Israel announced it will cut off all aid deliveries to us, after Hamas refused a new ceasefire and prisoner-release proposal. Our stockpiles are fine, for the near future, which raises the dilemma: share images of emaciated children immediately, or give it a few more days for credibility's sake?

As many as 15,000 migrants died just in preparations for the 2022 World Cup. Doha, March 4 - A dramatic development in ongoing efforts to reach a sustainable arrangement that will allow a war-torn Mediterranean territory to begin serious reconstruction occurred today with an announcement by Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani that his country will allow hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of anyone who wishes to migrate out of the Gaza Strip, to take up residence in his Persian Gulf emirate, where they will serve in the same role as the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Filipino, and other nationals who toil under intolerable conditions for pittance wages and are effectively trapped in the country.

Mind-boggling that no one has exploited the political opportunity to produce such a plan. Tel Aviv, March 3 - Political scientists and analysts voiced wonderment today that the government continually fails to adopt policies regarding the conflict with Hamas that entail completely satisfactory results without any painful losses, sacrifices, or concessions, leaving wide open the opportunity for Opposition parties to advocate for such ideal moves and put the Netanyahu government's prospects in jeopardy.

"None of that has any measurable, quantifiable outputs that I can write and not look like an idiotic fake." Washington, February 27 - A mid-level employee in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs voiced his frustration today at failing, so far, to come up with enough items to satisfy the new US government efficiency czar's order to compose a list of accomplishments, because none of the activities in which he engaged over the last week lend themselves to a compelling list beyond a general sense of working to weaken the Jewish State and strengthen its adversaries, he admitted today.

18 of the last 20 weekdays have seen him leave the depot at least 8 minutes past the posted time.Bat Yam, February 26 - An operator for a public transportation company in the greater Tel Aviv area relaxed this morning after initial worries that commuters might vent anger at him for delaying them through his tardiness, because this time, he could could invoke the pretext of a security threat that prevented his vehicle from departing the depot on time - when, in fact, as most mornings, he simply failed to keep to the posted schedule again.