Monthly Archives : September 2012

The media’s math and Egypt’s honor


This week on The Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you “Flock Builder” who explains how demonstrators are counted as well as Egyptian Minister of Conspiracy Theories and fiasco and expert Yevava Ben-Whine who defend Egypt’s honor and Israel’s defeat in the Yom Kippur War.   …

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Obama’s dangerous consistency


On Tuesday, Egypt’s chief prosecutor issued arrest warrants against eight US citizens.   Their purported crimes relate either to their reported involvement in the production of the Internet movie critical of Islam that has received so much attention over the past 10 days, or to other alleged anti-Islamic activities.   One of the US citizens indicted is a woman who…

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Obama’s reality perception adviser explains his Iran policy


This week on The Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you an exclusive interview with President Obama’s advisor for reality perception John Zelokoreli (John Itsnothappeningtome) who explains Obama’s policy towards Iran.   We also present the brand new word washing machine, and much much more.   …

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Cong. Michele Bachmann explains reality


Cong. Michele Bachmann get it.    Watch her speech before the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit. As long as the US has leaders like Bachmann, I continue to have faith that America’s best years are still ahead of it.   She does America proud. May she go from strength to strength.  

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US-commanded MFO in Sinai under attack — dead reported in compound


UPDATE – Wounded in compound reportedly medivacked to Israeli hospital. See here for more.   Israel media  – Channel 2 – just reported that the US-commanded Multi-National Force Observors headquarters in the Sinai is under assault. Salafists laid seige to the building this afternoon and some 50 armed men stormed it. There is fighting going on in the building and…

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A lesson in post-chronological history


As you know, earlier this week week my team at Latma, Israel’s premiere media criticism website produced our greeting to you for Rosh Hashana.   But we couldn’t deny you and entire newscast, so the whole show is posted below. As you can see, we feature a groundbreaking expose of the newest development in Islamic history studies — post-chronological Islamic…

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The reign of imagination


As he suffocated to death at the US Consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did US Ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered?    From what we have learned of this man since he was killed, it is clear that he was extremely courageous. He…

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The 9/11 attacks on the US embassies were not about a movie


Here are a couple of facts:   On June 4 the White House confirmed that the US had killed Abu Yahya Al-Libi – OBL’s Libyan lietenant who had moved into Al Qaeda’s #2 spot after Ayman Zahawiri after the Navy SEALs whacked OBL.    On Tuesday 9/11, a tape was released of Zawahiri announcing that Libi had been killed earlier…

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SHANA TOVA FROM LATMA


Here is Latma’s annual Rosh Hashana greeting to the Jewish people, in Israel and throughout the world. And of course, to our many, many friends.   Feel free to adopt it as your own and send it out to all your friends and loved ones.       Latma is supported by donations to the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Israel…

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God, Jerusalem and American foreign policy


Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama and his supporters have been dogged by criticism of his position on Israel. From the very outset of his tenure in office, critics and supporters alike have not been able to shake the sense that Obama is deeply hostile to the Jewish state.   Obama and his supporters have responded to every criticism of his…

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