Monthly Archives : April 2010

Republicans, Democrats and Israel


  Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. Today, as Republican support for Israel reaches new heights, support for Israel has become a minority position among Democrats.   Consider the numbers. During Operation Cast Lead — eleven days before Obama’s inauguration — the House of Representatives…

Read More »

Obama visits the Tribal Update


In this week’s Tribal Update from my Hebrew language satire website Latma, President Obama gives an interview where he breaks into song when Ronit and Elhanan probe him about his feelings for Israel. The show also discusses the anti-Zionist Left’s attack on Elie Wiesel for insisting that Jerusalem is a Jewish city, and gives an in-depth look at how the…

Read More »

Barreling on, regardless


  If safeguarding international security is the chief aim of US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, then at some point he can be expected to change course in the Middle East. For today, Obama faces the wreckage of every aspect of his Middle East policies. And largely as a consequence of his policies, the region moves ever closer to war.…

Read More »

The latest Tribal Updates


I’ve been remiss in posting the recent editions of the Tribal Update from my Hebrew language media satire website Latma. Since prolonged travel home to Israel from a month-long sojourn in the US prevented me from writing my column for Friday’s Jerusalem Post, now is a good opportunity to bring on the last three Tribal Updates. This week’s show features the…

Read More »

The strategic foundations of the US-Israel alliance


In honor of Israel’s 62nd Independence Day, and in light of President Obama’s repeated claims that US interests are best served by distancing itself from Israel, I decided to write the following essay explaining why a strong Israel is essential for US national security. Yom Ha’atzmuat Sameach.     Israel’s status as the US’s most vital ally in the Middle…

Read More »

Hamas embraces Haaretz’s star reporter


Here is a link to a slobbering love fest interview of Haaretz’s terrorist loving “reporter,” Gideon Levy with none other than Hamas’s website. Al Qassam, is the website of the Ezzedin al Qassam Brigades information office. You may recall the name Ezzedin al Qassam as the name of the Hamas terror brigades that vie for credit with Fatah’s Al Alksa…

Read More »

The Haaretz Spy Scandal


Over the past two weeks Israel has been rocked by a major espionage scandal in which the Haaretz newspaper plays a central role. To understand the significance of the scandal, it is worthwhile to preface a discussion of it with a look at a smaller story Haaretz developed this week.     On Sunday, Haaretz’s Amira Hass reported that in…

Read More »

Netanyahu’s Yom Hashoah speech


Here’s the link to Netanyahu’s speech at the Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem. This is why I am relieved that he’s in charge today and not Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak or anyone else for that matter. I have frustrations with Netanyahu. And I have criticisms of him. But I believe that unlike everyone else, he…

Read More »