Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld the AKP, Erdogan and his colleagues as proof that political Islam is consonant with democratic values. During Erdogan’s…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show we produce at Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run, we present you with the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage and his friends celebrating Passover. We also feature Jamil and Awad, our favorite suicide bombers discussing the new path to victory over the Jews. Here is the entire…
I am in the midst of a speaking tour and so have taken a couple of columns off. But Latma works on! This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet weekly satire show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website that I lead we bring you Judge Richard Goldstone fresh from his repudiation of his anti-Israel blood libel.…
Richard Goldstone’s repudiation of the eponymous blood libel he authored in 2009 provides a number of lessons about the nature of the political war against the Jewish state and how we must act if we are to defeat it. Learning these lessons is an urgent task as we approach the next phase of the war to delegitimize us. By…
Wednesday I was featured on IBA’s English news magazine Closeup with Leah Zinder. Here’s the entire program. Thanks to Dave Reaboi from the Center for Security Policy for putting it on YouTube. Shabbat shalom! Caroline
Over the past year or so, American Jewish opponents of Israel like writer and activist Peter Beinart have sought to intimidate and demoralize Israelis by telling us that American Jews either no longer support us or will stop supporting us if we don’t give in to all the Arabs’ demands. But statistical evidence exposes these threats as utter lies.…
This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly television-on-Internet news satire show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I lead we bring you a veritable feast. We present B’tselem’s new shocking footage of settler violence as well as Pooky – the great rock star who hates settlers, giving us a taste of his new, brilliant, revolutionary material.…
Amidst the many dangers posed by the political conflagration now engulfing the Arab world, we are presented with a unique opportunity in Syria. In Egypt, the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak has empowered the Muslim Brotherhood. The Sunni jihadist movement which spawned al-Qaeda and Hamas is expected to emerge as the strongest political force after the parliamentary elections in September.…
What are we to make of the fact that no one has taken credit for Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem? Wednesday’s bombing was not a stand-alone event. It was part and parcel of the new Palestinian terror war that is just coming into view. As Israel considers how to contend with the emerging onslaught, it is important to notice…
This week on The Tribal Update, the weekly television on Internet news satire show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I lead, we bring you NATO’s representative Jack Panic who explains the goal of NATO’s campaign against Libya. We also feature a mortar rain storm and commentary on the consequences of former president Moshe Katzav’s conviction and sentencing for…