European and American perfidy in dealing with Iran’s nuclear weapons program apparently has no end. This week we were subject to banner headlines announcing that the EU has decided to place an oil embargo on Iran. It was only when we got past the bombast that we discovered that the embargo is only set to come into force on July…
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet. One year later, Mubarak and his sons are in prison, and standing trial. This week, the final vote tally from Egypt’s parliamentary elections was published. The Islamist parties have won 72 percent of the seats in the lower house.…
This week on the Tribal Update, the satirical news broadcast produced weekly by Latma, the satirical Hebrew-language media criticism website I run we bring you and extraordinary production. First, our senior correspondent Flock Builder gives a musical expose of the ugly underside of Jewish terror in Israel. Then MK Abdul Messit explains how Israel’s Arab sector responds to its…
Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable. Proof of this dismal state of affairs came this week with the publication of a supportive profile of University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer in The Atlantic Monthly written by the magazine’s in-house foreign policy guru Robert Kaplan. …
One of the declared goals of the Netanyahu government is to ensure that Israeli schoolchildren receive a strong Zionist education. To this end, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Gideon Sa’ar as his education minister. Sa’ar has long distinguished himself as a critic of post-Zionist initiatives to transform Israel’s educational curriculum from a Zionist curriculum which in accordance with the…
I took this week off from column writing to take care of a backlog of busywork and chores. In the meantime, Mitt Romney won in New Hampshire and Iowa. Israel gave the PA another PR victory by sitting with its Israel-hating negotiators in Amman in a bid to appease the unappeasable Barack Obama. In other news, another Iranian nuclear scientist…
The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition of land for peace. Israel gave Egypt the Sinai in 1982 and in exchange it received a peace treaty with Egypt.…
This week on The Tribal Update, the news satire show brought to you every week by Latma, the satirical Hebrew-language media criticism site I lead we bring you a wide variety of views and features. Among other goodies, we interview Demon Levy, Haaretz columnist about his surprising article in support of the Haredim. We also bring you and interview with…
On balance, Israeli society is extremely healthy. Unemployment is at record lows. At a time of global recession, the Israeli economy is growing steadily. Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman. Education levels have risen dramatically across the board over the past decade with dozens…
In recent months, a curious argument has surfaced in favor of US President Barack Obama. His supporters argue that Obama’s foreign policy has been a massive success. If he had as much freedom of action in domestic affairs as he has in foreign affairs, they say, his achievements in all areas would be without peer. Expressing this view, Karen…