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Apropos Nobel Peace Prize


The following was just sent to me by a reader and I thought you might get a kick out of it. I certainly did.         John was in the fertilized egg business.       He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets,’       and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.         He kept records,…

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How Turkey was lost


Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis.     It isn’t that Ankara’s behavior changed fundamentally in recent days. There is nothing new in its massive hostility toward Israel and its effusive solicitousness toward the likes of Syria and Hamas. Since…

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The newest round of war


An atmosphere of fantasy pervaded US President Barack Obama’s Middle East peace processor George Mitchell’s meetings with Israeli leaders on Thursday. In separate photo opportunities, Mitchell stood next to President Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Ehud Barak and pledged to surmount all obstacles to achieve peace not only between Israel and the Palestinians but between Israel and Syria and Lebanon…

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An enfeebled Obama


If Zbigniew Brzezinski had his way, the US would go to war against Israel to defend Iran’s nuclear installations.     In an interview with the Daily Beast Web site last weekend, the man who served as former US president Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser said, “They [IAF fighter jets] have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we…

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Video – Interview with “Richard Goldstone”


Following the publication of the Goldstone report in which the UN commission led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel of crimes against humanity, “Goldstone” visited Latma’s studios for an interview.   For your viewing pleasure, we have translated the interview — given in Hebrew and linked it below.      

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Video – The Weekly Bang


If you enjoyed the interview with the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage, and the interview with the Swedish Foreign Minister, you’ll love the video linked below which is the subtitled version of the entire Weekly Bang newscast that we at Latma first posted two weeks ago.      

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Video – The Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage


Linked below is Latma’s latest video in which our studio interview Tawil Fadiha, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage. He discussed the recent violence in Gaza between Hamas and al Qaida cells.     You’ll recall from my recent posts that Latma is a satirical Hebrew-language media criticism website that I edit. Our most recent video – in which our…

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Our iredeemable international system


Our international institutions are irredeemably corrupted. From the United Nations to the International Criminal Court and their affiliate and subordinate bodies, these institutions are rotten at their core.     It isn’t that they don’t function. They function just fine. The problem is that through their regular functioning, they advance goals antithetical to those they were established to achieve. Instead…

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