The satirical newspaper The Onion is taking another jab at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In its latest issue, The Onion has a story titled: "Israel-Palestine now fighting over cemetery space."

"After decades of bitter conflict and the loss of thousands of innocent lives," the story begins, "Israeli and Palestinian forces clashed once again this week, with each side laying claim to a five-mile stretch of desperately needed cemetery space."

It is the epitome of morbid humor.

And it's a reminder to me of what may be The Onion's quintessential 2007 piece on the Middle East, titled:

"Middle East Conflict Intensifies as Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc."

"With the Iraq war in its fifth year, the war in Afghanistan in its sixth, and conflict between Israel and the rest of the region continuing unabated for more than half a century, intelligence sources are warning that a new wave of violence in the Middle East may soon blah blah blah, etc. etc., you know the rest," begins that 2007 story.

"The U.N. has issued a strongly worded whatever denouncing someone or something presumably having to do with the vicious explosive things that raged across this, or shattered the pre-dawn calm of that, or ripped suddenly through the other, killing umpteen innocent civilians in a Jerusalem bus or Beirut discotheque or Fallujah mosque or whatever it was this time."

And so it goes...