When failure carries no cost


This week, after a three-and-a-half-year delay, US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was finally placed on trial for massacring 13 and wounding 32 at Ft. Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009. Hasan was a self-identified jihadist. His paper and electronic trail provided mountains of evidence that he committed the massacre to advance the cause of Islamic supremacy. Islamic supremacists like…

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Real time simulation of the “peace talks”


This week on the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast that Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I founded and run has produced every week for the past four years presents Flock Builder explaining why 100 percent of Israelis will support an agreement with the Palestinians. We also bring you our resident computer expert who presents a simulated model of…

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How to respond to EU sanctions


THIS WEEK the EU took three steps that together prove Europe’s ill-intentions toward the Jewish state. First, last Friday the EU announced it is imposing economic sanctions on Israel. The sanctions deny EU funds to Israeli entities with an address beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines. They also deny EU funds to Israeli entities countrywide that carry out activities beyond the…

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The woes of Palestinian prisoners


This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, we bring you a behind the scenes look at the woes of Palestinian prisoners, and Bibi’s Plan B in the event that the upcoming round of talks with the PLO don’t bring peace. Enjoy!

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An interview with John Kerry and a Palestinian song about peace


his week on the Tribal Update, the satirical newscast produced every week by Latma, he Hebrew language satirical media criticism website I founded and run, we bring you an interview with US Secretary of State John Kerry, now home from his fifth trip to Israel. We also bring you a musical reaction to Kerry’s efforts to restart peace talks between…

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Israel’s reviled strategic wisdom


On Wednesday, Egypt had its second revolution in as many years. And there is no telling how many more revolutions it will have in the coming months, or years. This is the case not only in Egypt, but throughout the Islamic world. The American foreign policy establishment’s rush to romanticize as the Arab Spring the political instability that engulfed the…

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Obama’s war of ideas


US foreign policy is failing worldwide. The Russian and Chinese embrace of indicted traitor Edward Snowden is just the latest demonstration of the contempt in which the US is held by an ever increasing number of adversarial states around the world. Iran has also gotten a piece of the action. As part of the regime’s bread and circuses approach to…

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The Kerry Peace Plan Deciphered!


This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical news broadcast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satrical media criticism website I run we bring you Tawil Fadiha, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage explaining John Kerry’s peace plan. You may not be aware, but Israel’s new Heath Minister Yael German, from Finance MInister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party has decided…

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Jewish civil rights and privatization


OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon has done it again. You may recall that Alon was the “senior military official,” who as commander of the Judea and Samaria Division blamed the massacre of the Fogel family in March 2011 on undefined acts of vandalism in Arab villages allegedly carried out by Israelis. He also told The New York Times that he disagreed…

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Interview with Iran’s new moderate president!


This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast brought to you by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, the Tribal Update interviews Iran’s new moderate President! We also interview Alon Hasson, the head of the workers union at Ashdod Port. Enjoy!  

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