Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war. In “The shape of things to come,” he discussed the significance of the breakup of a Hizbullah cell in Kuwait and the deportation of Hizbullah agents from Bahrain. Badran explained that like the Hizbullah ring arrested last year…
FORTY-THREE years after the Jewish people liberated Jerusalem, our capital has never been under greater assault. But it has also never been more energetically defended by an indignant Jewish people – in Israel and throughout the world. Last week Makor Rishon reported that US diplomats have been “showing interest” in all Jewish construction plans in the capital. Ambassador James…
In this week’s Tribal Update from Latma, the Hebrew-language Hebrew satire website that I run, Elhanan and Ronit interviewed Marir Katan, (Little Bitter Man), our Correspondent for Cynicism Facilitation and asked him about his thoughts as we marked Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day on Wednesday. They also hosted Judge Richard Goldstone in our studio and discussed with him the latest revelations…
In the following clip, you see David Horowitz from the Freedom Center asking a Muslim student activist at UC San Diego if she supports Hizbullah’s aim of eradicating Jewry from the face of the planet. And this smooth-talking human upholstery board – sporting a drapery and a tablecloth – said yes. So there you have it. Add that…
A few weeks shy of the tenth anniversary of Israel’s May 24, 2000 unilateral withdrawal from south Lebanon, last Friday mass-circulation daily Yediot Ahronot chose to devote its weekend news supplement to a retrospective on the event. The retrospective included a fawning five-page interview with Defense Minister Ehud…
This week’s Tribal Update from Latma, the Hebrew-language satire website I run through the Center for Security Policy features Tawil Fadiha, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage visiting New York in the aftermath of the failed Time Square bombing. We also host “historian” Shaldag Borochov discussing Theodor Herzl’s legacy on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Enjoy!
So much for US President Barack Obama’s famed powers of persuasion. At the UN’s Nuclear Non-Poliferation Treaty review conference which opened this week, the Obama administration managed to lose control over the agenda before the conference even started. Obama administration officials said they intended to use the conference as a platform to mount international pressure on Iran to stop…
Moral blindness in the face of evil is depravity. But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor. If you refuse to call evil by its name, then you are a moderate. And if you stand up to evil, you are yourself an extremist. The embrace of moral blindness as an…
Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. Today, as Republican support for Israel reaches new heights, support for Israel has become a minority position among Democrats. Consider the numbers. During Operation Cast Lead — eleven days before Obama’s inauguration — the House of Representatives…
In this week’s Tribal Update from my Hebrew language satire website Latma, President Obama gives an interview where he breaks into song when Ronit and Elhanan probe him about his feelings for Israel. The show also discusses the anti-Zionist Left’s attack on Elie Wiesel for insisting that Jerusalem is a Jewish city, and gives an in-depth look at how the…