Monday morning Turkey took its anti-Israel campaign to a new level. Beyond downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel; beyond suspending military agreements; beyond threatening naval war; beyond threatening to foment an irredentist insurrection of Israeli Arabs; the Turks decided to terrorize Israeli tourists landing in Istanbul airport. Forty Israeli passengers, mainly businessmen who had landed in Istanbul on a Turkish…
This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly television-on-Internet show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we interview President Obama’s Reality Perception Advisor John Zelokoreli (John Thisisn’thappeningtome) about the US’s great victory in Libya. We also bring you our favorite suicide bomber dispatcher Awad on the psychiatrist’s couch after having a bad dream. Our…
US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, kicked up a political storm this week. On Tuesday, Ros-Lehtinen introduced the United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act. If passed into law it would place stringent restrictions on US funding of the UN’s budget. The US currently funds 22 percent of the UN’s general budget. That…
Will the Egyptian military be permitted to remilitarize the Sinai? Since Palestinian and Egyptian terrorists crossed into Israel from Sinai on August 18 and murdered eight Israelis this has been a central issue under discussion at senior echelons of the government and the IDF. Under the terms of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, Egypt is prohibited from deploying military…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet news satire show produced by Latma — the Hebrew-language media criticism website I run we bring you two perspectives on the deterioration of Israel’s ties with Egypt — from the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Official Apologies and from a representative of the public. We also bring you the latest updates on…
American media superstar Glenn Beck’s visit to Israel this week was a revealing and remarkable event. It revealed what it takes to be a friend of Israel. And it revealed the causes of Israel’s difficulty in telling its enemies from its friends. Many world leaders, opinion-shapers and other notables profess enduring friendship with Israel. From Washington to London, Paris…
Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets. In Judea and Samaria, from 1994 through 2000, the army closed its eyes to the Palestinian security forces’ open, warm and mutually supportive ties to terror groups. The military only began to reconsider…
The Palestinians’ decision to place the issue of the establishment of a Palestinian state before the United Nations for a vote next month repudiates the principles of the 1993 Oslo peace framework, through which the Palestinian Authority was formed out of the PLO. The Oslo framework dictated that the final status of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem would be determined…
Over the past several months, a certain intolerance has crept into the rhetoric of leading neoconservative publications and writers. This intolerance has become particularly noticeable since February’s neoconservative-supported overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and US President Barack Obama’s neoconservative-supported decision to commit US forces to battle against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in March. The basic concept being…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television on internet media satire show produced weekly by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I lead, we present our Story Hour, where we learn about the raven who wanted to be king of the forest. We also bring you into the “social justice” protests interrogation rooms and show how the media deal…