David Be’eri is either much admired or much hated, depending on how you feel about Israel and Jewish heritage. Be’eri is the founder and head of the Ir David Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to excavating, preserving and developing biblical Jerusalem, the City of David. When Be’eri began his project in 1986, the City of David, located just opposite…
On this week’s Tribal Update, the television-on-internet show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I edit, we feature President Barack Obama sharing his underwater fantasy with our viewers. We also feature the Israeli media waxing sophisticated on the 10 year anniversary of the jihad against Israel. Enjoy! Here is the full program. And…
By Iranian and Hizbullah accounts, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon next week will be a splendid affair. The man who stole his office and then killed his countrymen to protect his crime will be greeted as a conquering hero. Billboards bidding him welcome and Iranian flags will line the roads from the Beirut airport down to the border…
A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous amount of construction went on throughout the last 10 months. The Arabs of Judea and Samaria were not only building without restrictions, the US, Europe and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf bankrolled much of their construction. The…
There’s a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it’s a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently first discovered in June. Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran’s industrial complexes – including its nuclear installations – are its main victims. Stuxnet operates as a computer worm. It is inserted into a computer…
Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit decided to celebrate Succot with a special program of bloopers set against the pastoral backdrop of the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage Tawil Fadiha’s Peace Succah. Enjoy!
According to Israel Army Radio, Prime Minister Netanyahu has offered to extend the moratorium on Jewish property rights in Judea and Samaria for an additional three months in exchange for Jonathan Pollard’s freedom. That is, if Obama pardons Pollard, who has served 25 years of a life sentence for transferring classified documents to Israel, then Israel will agree to extend…
Following the example of its counterparts in the West, for decades the Israeli Left has carefully cultivated its image as the fun side of the political divide. In a thousand different ways, the public was told that the Left is on the side of tomorrow. It is the home of optimism. If you want a cheery future, if you…
In this week’s episode of the Tribal Update, the television-on-internet satire show produced weekly by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit, against the backdrop of the renewed “land for peace” talks between Israel and the PLO, we reveal the truth about World War’s origins and reveal Winston Churchill’s “true colors.” We also describe the world’s enraged response…
You have to hand it to Turkey’s Islamist leaders. They sure know how to get their way. In the seven years since they first took power, the Islamist AKP party has successfully transformed Turkey from a staunch ally of the US and Israel and a member of NATO into a staunch ally of Iran and a member of NATO. …