Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned. Over the past week, it has been widely reported that the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are conducting secret negotiations regarding future Israeli land surrenders to the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem. According to the reports, the Obama administration has presented Netanyahu with a…
Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assasination. As happens every year, the Left marked the day by talking about Rabin’s wonderful legacy of peace and how if he had been alive there would be peace today. Everyone forgets to mention that when he was killed Rabin was reconsidering the entire Oslo process due to the massive…
Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation. Today our leading minds devote their energies and cognitive powers to figuring out new ways to hide reality from themselves and the general public. Take US President Barack Obama’s senior counterterrorism advisor for…
In this week’s Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet satire show produced each week by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit, we bring you Jamil and Awad’s marvelous jihad adventures. We also celebrate the great Tom Friedman’s recent visit to Israel and we bring you to the border with Egypt where we celebrate this year’s 10,000th illegal alien. Latma…
On Tuesday, US voters are set to repudiate US President Barak Obama’s agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his behavior in the face of a similar repudiation last January, it is safe to assume that Obama will not abandon his course. Last year, in an attempt to block Obama’s plan to nationalize healthcare, Massachusetts voters elected Republican Scott…
Sorry to all of you for not being in touch. I was in South Africa for the past week on a lecture tour sponsored by the South African Zionist Federation that brought me to Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. It was an extremely enlightening experience for me and hopefully I’ll find the time to sit down and write…
On last week’s show, one of our sketches was a satirical expanation of Pallywood in light of the latest move to fabricate a story in which Israelis are portrayed as heartless beasts who run over children. Here it is as a separate item. Please disseminate far and wide!
Israel’s opposition leaders spent the past week trying to prove their relevance. On Tuesday, both former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of wrecking Israel’s relations with the US. Both Livni and Olmert claimed that Netanyahu is taking a knife to Israel’s most valuable alliance by refusing to bow to US…
This week at the Tribal Update, the television on internet show produced by the Hebrew-language media satire site Latma that I edit, we expose the story of global media theater. We also report on the newest trend among style conscious Tel Avivians. Enjoy! Latma is funded through contributions to the Center for Security Policy in Washington. If…
Yesterday one of my readers forwarded me a blog post written by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and asked me to comment on it. In truth, I rarely find much point in reading Goldberg’s self-absorbed writings. Goldberg has carved out a little niche for himself. Many years ago he wrote two stupendous pieces for the New Yorker about Hizbullah and ever since…