You have to hand it to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. They know how to play power politics. They know how to acquire power. And they know how to use power. Last Friday, the day before voters by most accounts elected the Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsy to serve as Egypt’s next president, The Wall Street Journal published a…
This week Latma produced the 150th episode of the Tribal Update! We’ve been working week in and week out for the past three years with barely a one week break. I don’t think that any television show in the history of television — aside from the news — has such an uninterrupted production record. As you can imagine, my team…
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With her unbridled hostility towards Israel, the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton provides us with an abject lesson in what happens when a government places its emotional aspirations above its national interests. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, many of Israel’s elite have aspired to be embraced by Europe. In recent years, nearly every government…
I just saw this YouTube video from the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on April 29. If you feel like watching my speech, it starts at 41:38.
From the amazing Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish a few excerpts from his gorgeous essay Israel’s military victories were never the results of an inspired military or political leadership. While the anniversary of the Six-Day War has led to an outpouring of adoration for the usual suspects; the khaki-garbed generals striding victoriously through a carefully cropped photo, even if…
This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language, satirical media criticism website that I run, we bring you several exceptional items. You may or may not have heard about the scandal at Israel’s Forensic Medicine Institute. Prof. Yehuda Hiss, has again come under fire when it was discovered that he had held body…
Saul Alinsky, the godfather of subversive radical political action, had a very clear strategy for undermining and destroying his enemies: Infiltrate, divide and destroy. Since his disciple Barack Obama was elected US president in 2008, Alinsky’s impact on Obama has received a fair amount of attention. Less noticed has been the adoption of Alinsky’s methods by radical leftist…
This week on the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I run we bring you Obama’s Advisor for Reality Perception John Zelokoreli (It’snothappeningtome) who explains Obama’s policy towards Syria. We also present the tale of the Israeli pioneer, give a sneak peek at this summer’s economic protesters and give you…
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. Speaking on Wednesday at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Barak warned that if Israel can’t cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing. Even the diehard leftists in the media had a hard time swallowing his…