The current flurry of diplomatic activity is deeply disturbing. It isn’t simply that the Obama administration has strong-armed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into participating in diplomatic theater with the PLO whose successful completion will leave Israel weaker and less defensible. It isn’t merely that the newest “peace process” diverts our leadership’s attention away from Iran and its nuclear weapons program.…
This week’s Tribal Update, the television-on-internet satire program produced by Latma, the Hebrew language media satire website I edit, centers on Yom Kippur that begins tonight. Many of our regular contributors ask for forgiveness for their sins. This includes our media icon Flock Builder who asks for forgiveness from what is about to happen if Israel goes ahead with the…
Lebanon is a sad and desperate place. And its disastrous fate is personified today by its prime minister. All who claim to love freedom, democracy, human rights and dignity should take note of Saad Hariri’s fate. They should recognize that his predicament is a testament to their failure to stand up for the ideals they say they champion. …
On August 28, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck confounded his colleagues in the media when he brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a rally he called “Restoring Honor.” While former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker, the rally was decidedly apolitical. The speakers said nothing…
This week’s Tribal Update from Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I edit, we discuss the upcoming Palestinian responses to the breakdown of the peace negotiations with Tawil Fadiha, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage. We also produced an ode to Israeli prime ministers past and present who can’t seem to kick their peace obsession. Here’s the whole show:…
This week at Latma’s Tribal Update, we feature a musical discourse on what moves Israeli actors to announce that they are boycotting audiences who live in Judea and Samaria. We also discuss the unique natural phenomenon that seems to exist only in Israel where Israelis are attacked by a natural phenomena. Here is the whole show. …
Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative’s attempt to convince us that we have a Palestinian partner. A week after the pro-Palestinian group launched its massive online promotion urging people to join its Facebook page, a mere 634 people had answered the call. The US-funded agitprop involved ads in which senior Fatah…
As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads to Washington for another stillborn round of talks with Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas hosted by US President Barack Obama, he will probably be preoccupied with one issue. It won’t be Obama’s bigoted demand that Jews be prohibited from building synagogues, schools and homes in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. Netanyahu won’t be…
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