No one denies the long suffering of the Schalit family. Noam and Aviva Schalit and their relatives have endured five years and four months of uninterrupted anguish since their son St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit was abducted from his army post by Palestinian terrorists and spirited to Gaza in June 2006. Since then, aside from one letter and one videotaped message, they…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television on internet news satire show produced by Latma, we bring you our two favorite commentators Flock Builder and Wise Man singing about what they nail to the walls of their succah. We also feature our favorite jihadists Jamil and Awad reacting to the reports in the Israeli media about Muslim rage…
On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt’s state television headquarters in Cairo. The 1,000 Christians represented the ancient Christian community of some 8 million whose presence in Egypt predates the establishment of Islam by several centuries. They gathered in Cairo to protest the recent burning of two churches by Islamic mobs…
What follows are two videos that popped up on YouTube over the past week. The first, a Jew hating screed by a protester at the Occupy Wall Street protests shows what we are up against. Watch and try to find any difference between what this man says and Nazi propaganda. The second video is Pat Condell’s latest video. …
In this week’s episode of the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-languge media satire site I run we discuss the arson at the mosque in Tuba Zangaria in the Galilee. Our esteemed reporter Flock Builder also shares the new revelations about Bibi that appear in his new book. Enjoy the show and gmar hatima tova.…
Next month, convicted Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will begin his 27th year in prison, and the Obama administration is displaying stunning insensitivity to what this means for the American Jewish community. Pollard was arrested in 1985 for transferring classified documents to Israel during his service at US Naval Intelligence. In 1987, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his…
To the naked eye, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be moving from strength to strength. Erdogan was welcomed as a hero on his recent trip to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. The Arabs embraced him as the new face of the war against Israel. The Obama administration celebrates Turkey as a paragon of Islamic democracy. The Obama administration cannot…
Last month at the UN President Barack Obama did something he had never done before. He discussed Israel and the Palestinians without once attacking Israel. He didn’t blame Israel for the absence of peace. True, Obama did not blame the Palestinians for refusing to negotiate with Israel. He did not attack Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for making a…
Thank you for following our broadcasts at Latma each week. Below is our Shana Tova greeting you and all of Israel, (and Israel’s friends). Thanks to Matisyahu for writing the original. I hope you all have a wonderful year. And here’s this week full Tribal Update. Enjoy! Latma is funded through contributions to…
Upon his return to Ramallah from New York, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was greeted by a crowd of several thousand well-wishers. They applauded him for his speech at the UN. There, Abbas erased Jewish history from the Land of Israel, denied Israel’s right to exist and pledged his commitment to establish a racist Palestinian state ethnically cleansed of all…