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”…
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…
Sunday was the first day of Sgt. Gilad Schalit’s sixth year in captivity. Schalit was kidnapped on June 26, 2006 and has been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists affiliated with Hamas in Gaza ever since. For five years, Schalit has been held incognito. His terrorist captors have permitted him to send but one letter to his family and released…
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…
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 bring you a special guest who will sing to you in English. The great Tom Friedman from the New York Times visited our studios this week to croon to our audience about his…
This week we have been witness to two transparent attempts to sell liberal American Jews a bill of goods. And from the looks of things, both were successful. The first instance of liberal American Jewish credulity this week unfolded Monday night in Washington. At a five-star hotel, eighty Jewish donors shelled out between $25,000- 35,800 to attend a…
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…
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates sounded the warning bells. In Gates’ words, “I’ve spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower, and one that had no compunction about spending what it took…
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
Every day, major stories come out of the Middle East. And behind each of these stories are major developments that deserve of our attention and, more often than not, our intense concern. Just this week, major stories have come out of Syria, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen and Pakistan that are all deeply disconcerting. In Syria, dictator Bashar…