A few weeks shy of the tenth anniversary of Israel’s May 24, 2000 unilateral withdrawal from south Lebanon, last Friday mass-circulation daily Yediot Ahronot chose to devote its weekend news supplement to a retrospective on the event. The retrospective included a fawning five-page interview with Defense Minister Ehud…
This week’s Tribal Update from Latma, the Hebrew-language satire website I run through the Center for Security Policy features Tawil Fadiha, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage visiting New York in the aftermath of the failed Time Square bombing. We also host “historian” Shaldag Borochov discussing Theodor Herzl’s legacy on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Enjoy!
So much for US President Barack Obama’s famed powers of persuasion. At the UN’s Nuclear Non-Poliferation Treaty review conference which opened this week, the Obama administration managed to lose control over the agenda before the conference even started. Obama administration officials said they intended to use the conference as a platform to mount international pressure on Iran to stop…
Moral blindness in the face of evil is depravity. But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor. If you refuse to call evil by its name, then you are a moderate. And if you stand up to evil, you are yourself an extremist. The embrace of moral blindness as an…