Fahmi Shabaneh is an odd candidate for dissident status. Shabaneh is a Jerusalemite who joined the Palestinian Authority’s General Intelligence Service in 1994. Working for PA head Mahmoud Abbas and GIS commander Tawfik Tirawi, Shabaneh was tasked with investigating Arab Jerusalemites suspected of selling land to Jews. Such sales are a capital offense in the PA. Since 1994 scores…
This week’s show from my Hebrew language media satire website latma.co.il discusses among other things the sorry tale of Uri Korb, the Assistant District Attorney in Jerusalem. Korb, who serves as the chief prosecutor in Ehud Olmert’s upcoming trial was forced to take a leave of absence this week. In his spare time Korb teaches law and a student…
I am going to depart from my area of expertise to discuss a film. The Hurt Locker has been hailed by conservatives and liberals and everyone in between as the best movie about the war in Iraq to date. I just saw it. It literally made me sick. I think that it is one of the worst movies I have ever…
This week at Latma we translated our weekly videocast “The Tribal Update” into English. It is our intention to translate all of our videos into English from now on and I will post them here as well. Enjoy!
US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party’s control over both houses of Congress, Iran’s announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce weapons-grade uranium is a testament to Obama’s feckless incompetence. Even…
A regional war may well be approaching. The actions and statements of Iran and its Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian proxies over the past week or so indicate that this is what Israel’s enemies are gunning for. In preparing for this growing threat, Israel’s leaders need to consider more than just the military challenges it faces. They must consider…
“Never again!” So declared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he spoke at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of its liberation. Netanyahu used his speech at the notorious death camp to nudge what he referred to as “the enlightened nations of the world” to recognize that “murderous evil” has to be stopped as early as possible to prevent…
US President Barack Obama is feeling the heat. His response to the current crisis threatening to sink his one-year-old presidency is telling for what it says about the future of both his domestic and foreign policies. Israel should take heed of his responses. Obama’s Democratic Party, and indeed the US political establishment as a whole, received a jolt on…
Egypt’s Minister of Conspiracy Theories, Mr. Halil Majnoun visited Latma’s studio to discuss why Israel is trying to take over the world.
Mr. Morris Tery visits Latma’s studios to tell us about the lessons the US has drawn from the panty bomber.