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Andrew Breitbart RIP


I just read the horrible news that Andrew Breitbart has died. I send from Jerusalem my heartfelt condolences to his widow and children.   I watched Andrew’s speech at CPAC on YouTube and have to admit that I thought he didn’t look well. He had put on some extra weight and to my eye seemed a bit short of breath.…

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Shaul Mofaz for Prime Minister and Israel’s Iran hysteria exposed


A few days late, I bring you the latest Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I run.   This week we feature MK Shaul Mofaz and his bid for Prime Minister. We also introduce our correspondent on environmentally friendly nuclear bombs, Serene Flatulence who discusses the Iranian nuclear program with Ronit and…

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Harvard, Jew haters, motherhood and Israel


  This morning I received an e-mail alert from CAMERA that my alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is hosting a two-day conference which essentially begins with the proposition that Israel has no right to exist. This isn’t surprising. After all, the Kennedy School is home to my old professor Steve Walt. No one there batted a lash when he…

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Hamas and Fatah unite in song


This week on the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced weekly by Latma, the Hebrew-language, satirical media criticism website I run we bring you Tawil Fadiha from Fatah, (the PA’s Minister of Uncontrollable Rage) and Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza head of Hamas extolling the virtue of each other’s terror organizations and embracing the cause of peace a solicitude – in English!…

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The UN issues a scary warning to Syria


This week on the Tribla Update, the satirical newscast produced weekly by Latma, the Hebrew language satirical media criticism website I run we bring you three important items. First, UN representative Johann Phlegmat joins us in the studio to discuss the UN’s important work in Syria. Then our correspondent Flock Builder and Ronit dissect the bitter rivalry between Bibi Netanyahu…

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The Fatah-Hamas peace process


On Monday afternoon, the Palestinians destroyed officially whatever was left of the concept of a peace process with Israel.   When PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas signed a deal with Hamas terror-master Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar, the notion that there is a significant segment of Palestinian society that is not committed to the destruction of Israel was…

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Obama’s rhetorical storm


The Obama administration is absolutely furious at Russia and China. The two UN Security Council permanent members’ move on Saturday to veto a resolution on Syria utterly infuriated  US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. And they want us all to know just how piping mad they really are.   Rice called the…

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Responding to a hit job in the Huff Post


I have received a couple of inquiries about a hit job on me published in the Huffington Post blog by two ex-US military officers and current DC consultants named Steven White and P.J. Dermer. I’d never heard of the pair before their foray into character assassination against me, but it’s not difficult to find their footprints on the web.    For…

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Peace Now fights Migron and Noam Shalit for Knesset


This week on The Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced weekly by Latma, Hebrew-language media satire website I run, we bring you an exclusive interview with Peace Now’s Executive Director Yariv Googleheimer in which he explains the dangerous implications that would arise if Migron, a community of 50 families is not destroyed forthwith.   We also bring you a campaign…

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Fool me twice


  Former US congressman Robert Wexler is a man worth listening to. Wexler served as then-senator Barack Obama’s chief booster in the American Jewish community during the 2008 presidential campaign. He appeared everywhere and said anything to convince the American Jewish community that the same man who sat in the church pews listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Semitic vitriol for…

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