This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show we produce at Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run, we feature an interview with the wise judge who presided over the panel that acquitted three Arab defendants who beat Arik Karp to death in front of his wife and daughter of murder charges and convicted them instead of manslaughter. …
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren’t tragic. Immediately after the news broke of the deal Netanyahu announced, “The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both.” Netanyahu’s statement is funny because it is…
If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral impetuses to its foreign policy. Today, US forces are engaged in a slowly escalating war on behalf of al-Qaida penetrated antiregime forces in Libya. It is difficult to know the significance of al-Qaida’s role in the opposition forces because…
Last week I was in Washington meeting with lawmakers about recent events in the Middle East. Among other things, I gave brief remarks at the Center for Security Policy national security luncheon on the hill. Speaking with me were Cong. Allen West, an extraordinary man and great American patriot and friend of Israel, and Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of…
Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld the AKP, Erdogan and his colleagues as proof that political Islam is consonant with democratic values. During Erdogan’s…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show we produce at Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run, we present you with the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage and his friends celebrating Passover. We also feature Jamil and Awad, our favorite suicide bombers discussing the new path to victory over the Jews. Here is the entire…
I am in the midst of a speaking tour and so have taken a couple of columns off. But Latma works on! This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet weekly satire show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website that I lead we bring you Judge Richard Goldstone fresh from his repudiation of his anti-Israel blood libel.…
Richard Goldstone’s repudiation of the eponymous blood libel he authored in 2009 provides a number of lessons about the nature of the political war against the Jewish state and how we must act if we are to defeat it. Learning these lessons is an urgent task as we approach the next phase of the war to delegitimize us. By…
Wednesday I was featured on IBA’s English news magazine Closeup with Leah Zinder. Here’s the entire program. Thanks to Dave Reaboi from the Center for Security Policy for putting it on YouTube. Shabbat shalom! Caroline