Monthly Archives : June 2010

Defend free speech – support Latma


YouTube’s decision to pull Latma’s hit song We Con the World after 3 million viewers shows that Israel’s enemies are afraid of us. Since they cannot refute our points, they are trying to silence us. First they threw ridiculous accusations at Latma that our parody of We are the World was racist. When that didn’t stick and more and more…

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YouTube silences Latma, removes We Con the World


As Israel went offline for the Jewish sabbath, YouTube removed most versions of Latma’s hit parody song We Con the World. If you try to access the song on YouTube you receive the notification:   This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner/ Chappell Music, Inc. .   Copyright experts we advised with before posting…

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The Tribal update interviews Kevin O’Keefe


Kevin O’Keefe, the former US Marine and current Hamas terrorist has been the Turkish-Hamas propaganda poster boy of the week. In media interviews, O’Keefe, who was on the Mavi Marmara, appeared with a bloody face and told his interviewers how he singlehandedly beat down the Israeli naval commandos who boarded the ship to enforce Israel’s lawful blockade of the Gaza…

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The first rule of strategy


The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own. Unfortunately, Israel’s leaders seem unaware of this rule, while Iran’s rulers triumph in its application.   Over the past few weeks, Israel has devoted itself entirely to the consideration of questions that are, at best, secondary.…

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The plain truth about Israel


  In other times, Hearst Newspapers White House Correspondent Helen Thomas’s demand that the Jews “get the hell out of Palestine,” and go back to Poland, Germany and America would have been front page news in every newspaper in the US the day after the story broke.    In other times, had the dean of the White House Correspondents Association…

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Israel’s daunting task


For We Con the World click here   The ferocity and speed of the current international assault on Israel has left the government in a daze. Statements from our leadership are marked by confusion. This reaction is understandable. Everywhere Israel turns it is met with hostility.   Turkey — which just a decade ago was Israel’s most important regional ally…

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We Con the World – The Gaza flotilla crew speaks!


This week at Latma – the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit, we decided to do something new. We produced a clip in English. There we feature the Turkish-Hamas “love boat” captain, crew and passengers in a musical explanation of how they con the world.   We think this is an important Israeli contribution to the discussion of recent events…

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What is going on in America?


Yes, I know that the story of the day is the Hamas flotilla. Scroll down and read my column on the issue from today’s Jerusalem Post. I am going to be interviewed on the Laura Ingraham show today as well as on a number of other talk radio shows in the US and I am working on another column on…

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