Monthly Archives : September 2011

Israel Project responds to my post and I respond to the Israel Project


In response to my post yesterday reporting the Jerusalem Post/Reuters article outlining how the Israel Project and J Street have been encouraging Congress to maintain aid to the Palestinian Authority even after they abandon the pretense of wanting peace with Israel by asking the UN to recognize a Palestinian state outside the framework of a negotiated settlement, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi,…

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Israel Project lobbies for continuing aid to the Palestinians


The Israel Project was the brainchild of a lot of very wealthy Jewish philanthropists who decided rightly, that there was a pressing need for a professional operation in Washington capable of getting out the truth about Israel to a hostile media. Millions upon millions of dollars have been lavished on this project.   And what do we see from this?…

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NY subway counter-ad


As I expected, Pamela Geller is all over the anti-Israel NY subway ad campaign I discussed yesterday.   She submitted the ad above to CBS Outdoor/NY Transit to run on NY subway cars.   Go to Atlas Shrugs to help her finance this effort. In the event that the ad is rejected, she will sue and you are invited to…

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Lessons from the embassy takeover


We are able to consider the lessons of the weekend’s mob assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo because the six Israeli security officers who were on the brink of being slaughtered were rescued at the last moment and spirited out of the country. If the Egyptian commandos hadn’t arrived on the scene at the last moment, the situation would…

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Saudi involvement in 9/11


As the Saudis blame Israel for their decision to abandon the US, it is worth recalling their involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks.   The Miami Herald presents new information on the involvement of Saudi nationals (beyond the 15 out of 19 hijackers) in the attacks here.

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Saudi Arabia’s exploitation of Palestinian UN bid


The Saudis effectively ended their strategic alliance with the US in the aftermath of the US-supported overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. Since then the Saudis have strengthened their ties to China and Russia and from what I understand have refused to sign any new oil contracts with the Americans. Now in this oped in the New York Times, the Saudis are…

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NY subway ads calling for ending US aid to Israel?


According to JTA (hat tip Arve in Norway) this ad is set to be posted in 18 NY subway stations in Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn starting later this month. Seems to me that New Yorkers who support Israel should be able to speak to the City of New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the New York Transit…

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Erdogan the Turkish dumbbell and the sorrows of the evicted


This week the Tribal Update, the television on internet program brought to you by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run got a facelift with a new graphic design.   We present to you Erdogan, the Turkish Dumbbell. We also send our reporter Flock Builder to Migron to report on the destruction of Jewish homes at the site. Finally,…

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