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The Spin Doctors and Gilad Shalit


This week on the Tribal Update, the television on Internet news satire program brought to you by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run, we present you with one of my favorite guests, Freddie Spin who will discuss the latest Gilad Shalit celebrity escapade.   We also bring you a portrait of the Israeli media’s concern for Palestinian “folk trades”…

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Tom Friedman double whammy


I must admit that I forgot to post the Tom Friedman love song from last week’s Tribal Update until this morning when I heard the clip posted below by the great Mark Levin from his show yesterday.   First of all, here’s the Tom Friedman love song. Pass around to one and all.       And now, here is…

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Addicted to freedom


The following is an excerpt from No Way In, a novel written by Richard Fernandez that I just finished last week:   “I think,” Alex said softly, “that all revolutions are about faith. In this case it’s faith for its own sake, about religion without God. Yes, we are told there could be a paradise on earth. But we’re not…

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GOD BLESS MICHELE BACHMANN!!!!!!!!!!


Watch this speech by Congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Israel.   I cannot remember EVER hearing a more pro-Israel speech by ANY American presidential candidate in my life.   I cannot remember EVER hearing a more cogent explanation of Israel’s importance to the US by ANY American presidential candidate in my life.    And this speech came…

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Iranian bomb song


The crew at ‘>Latma is on vacation this week. We’ll be back next week with a new show. So I take this opportunity to present one of my all-time favorite Latma tunes – The Iranian Bomb Song. It seems to go with the message of my latest column. Shabbat shalom! Caroline

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Academics oppose Yale’s decision to close YIISA


This afternoon Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld from Indiana University sent me a letter he wrote to Yale’s President co-signed by dozens of academics from all over the world, expressing their opposition to the university’s decision to close YIISA. In my column on Friday, I mistakenly wrote that YIISA was the only institute in a North American university dedicated to the study of…

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Palestinian eskimos and Naksa/ Nakba/ Amba celebrations


This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet satire program produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I lead we turn our attention to the sad fate of Palestinian eskimos in the context of Naksa/Nakba/Amba/Bla Bla raids on Israel’s borders. We also feature a public service announcement about Israel’s vanishing species and plenty of other great stuff. Here’s…

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Is the US deliberately harming Israeli covert ops in Iran?


  One of the dirty secrets about Western trade with enemy states like Iran is that the Western companies trading wtih them may also wittingly or unwittingly serve as espionage assets for their home country or for other Western countries. Consider the Stuxnet computer virus which reportedly caused great harm to at least one and perhaps multiple nuclear installations in…

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Palestinian prehistory and the generals’ expert opinions


This week on The Tribal Update, the television on internet show brought to you by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I run, we present Palestinian prehistory and the generals’ expert opinions. We also tell you how Israel deals with terror collaborators…. Enjoy!    Latma  is funded through contributions to the Center for Security Policy in Washington. If you would…

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