As promised, this week my team at Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, returned from our two week vacation and went about producing this week’s Tribal Update, our weekly television-on-internet satirical newscast. This week’s show concentrates on two main items — the Iranian bomb and the destruction of the Jewish community of Migron. On the former,…
I want to say a big thank you to all of you for consoling me about my loss of Olivia. I guess the reason that I felt the need to write about her passing is because I needed to be consoled. I don’t often – or really ever – write about my private life because I firmly believe —…
By Tuesday, 50 Israeli families will have been tossed out of their homes in their village of Migron, which is set for destruction. They will not be dispossessed because they unlawfully squatted on someone else’s property. The residents of Migron will be tossed from their homes – on the order of the Supreme Court – because Attorney-General Yehuda…
This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg’s “crime”? He performs ritual circumcisions on Jewish male infants in accordance with Jewish law. The doctor’s complaint came shortly after a ruling by a court in Cologne outlawing the practice of male circumcision. The Austrians and the Swiss also took…
Good bye to my friend, my companion, my protector, my shadow, my gal. Good bye my Olivia.
In 1949, the Communist takeover of China rattled the US foreign policy establishment to its core. China’s fall to Communism was correctly perceived as a massive strategic defeat for the US. The triumphant Mao Zedong placed China firmly in the Soviet camp and implemented foreign policies antithetical to US interests. For the American foreign policy establishment, China’s fall…
Just in time for President Shimon Peres to revert to type and seek to undermine the government’s ability to attack Iran’s nuclear installations, the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast brought to you each week by Latma, the Hebrew-language, satirical media satire website I run, brings you Israel’s Most Honored President. We also feature a discussion into the real cost of…
Last month, provoked by the Obama White House’s penchant for routinely using top secret information to advance its political fortunes on the backs of US allies, agents and armed forces, Latma produced an English-language song we called Tell on Me, to the tune of the immortal words of Ben E. King’s masterpiece Stand By Me. If you missed it then,…
In a statement to the Yale Daily News, Yale President Richard Levin said he is “in the process of convening a meeting of the Yale Corporation Committee on Trusteeship to discuss the process of reviewing the matter, which we take very seriously.” “The matter” Levin was referring to was Yale Trustee Fareed Zakaria’s confessed plagiarism. As I mentioned yesterday,…
Politico has an incredibly disingenuous article up about how Israeli national security “experts” give Obama a higher score on Israel than Romney. The article is based on a blog post by Shmuel Rosner. Rosner has picked a panel of “experts” whom he apparently asks about various issues from time to time. He gives their answers a score and…