At the Knesset this afternoon, Bibi told Obama to leave us alone. In a speech welcoming Brazil’s president, (by the way what is he doing here? He’s buddy, buddy with Ahmadinejad), Bibi said that Israel will continue to build in all of Jerusalem’s neighborhoods. He also said that we would resume building in Judea and Samaria in six months. So…
The Obama administration’s calculated decision to escalate its open attacks against Israel over a routine decision by the Jerusalem Planning and Building Board to approve 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo neighborhood presents Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with an unenviable task. He has to either relinquish Israel’s sovereignty over its capital by capitulating in the face of the unprecedented American…
This week’s Tribal Update from Latma, the Hebrew, language media satire website I edit needs a bit of explanation for foreign audiences. The first gag, with John Indenial, Obama’s advisor for reality perception is self-explanatory. The second gag is a promo. It is a spoof on Israel Channel 2’s newest drama series “Hatufim” or “Kidnapped.” The plot revolves…
The Red-Green alliance is on the march. On Wednesday, the leftist-controlled European Parliament in Strasbourg passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. That report, it will be recalled, denies Israel’s right to self-defense by alleging that Israel’s actions to defend itself from illegal Palestinian aggression during the course of Operation Cast Lead were war crimes. The resolution did more than…
The Israeli media sported banner headlines this morning proclaiming that VIce President Joe Biden’s goal during his visit here this week will be to force Prime MInister Netanyahu to stand down on Iran. I just spent the evening at Netnayhu’s father, Prof. Benzion Netanyahu’s 100th birthday party. Prof. Netanyahu ended the evening with a short address in which he stated…
US Vice President Joseph Biden’s job is about to stop being easy. Indeed, it is about to become impossible. On Monday Biden will arrive in Israel for a three-day visit. Biden, who will meet with Israel’s leaders, will be the most senior official in the cavalcade of senior US officials that have descended on Israel in recent weeks. Biden will…
This week’s Tribal Update from my Hebrew language media satire site Latma discusses how Muslims have invented and destroyed history at the same time. We also delved into the depressing world if Israeli natural disaster correspondents. I hope you enjoy the show and spread it far and wide.
Latma’s Tribal Update this week discusses among other things, the Mossad hit against Haman in Shushan. The second sketch is a parody of a television personality here in Israel who does a lot of commercials. You may or may not understand it. Also some of the news briefs are inside baseball. But you’ll get the drift. …
There is something pathetic about what passes as European foreign policy these days. Quite simply, more often than not, the concerted positions of the EU member nations have nothing to do with any of their national interests. Take the EU’s initial response to the killing of Hamas terror-master Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on January 19. A senior…