For many years, observers of the US State Department on both sides of the American political spectrum have agreed that State Department officials suffer from a malady referred to as “clientitis.” Clientitis is generally defined as a state of mind in which representatives of an organization confuse their roles. Rather than advance the cause of their organization to…
Sunday night I had the pleasure of being Milt Rosenberg’s guest on his nightly show “Extension 720” on WGN radio in Chicago. Milt is something of a radio legend. He’s been doing his show for 38 years. Here’s a link to the show. The program runs for two hours. The podcast however includes only the show itself and it goes…
This week on the Tribal Update, the media satire television-on-Internet newcast produced weekly by Latma, we interview the CEO of Israel’s Channel 10 television to find out what stands behind his station’s annual request for an NIS1 billion bailout. We also look into the future and consider the financial plight of Peace Now in the event the Knesset passes the…
US Embassy cables leaked by Wikileaks in September exposed the ugly truth that self-described champions of Israeli democracy would like us to forget about the actual goals of Israel’s self-described human rights organizations. In a meeting with then US Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv in January 2010, B’Tselem director Jessica Montell…
This week’s Tribal Update brings you straight into Israel’s nerve center for thinking through what a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would look like. We bring you three leading experts in the business – our film critic, our fashion advisor and our military commentator. We also feature an interview with two of Israel’s most respected Supreme Court Justices who explain…
This year at Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly, they invited the newly minted anti-Israel activist Peter Beinhart to speak. They also showcased the Boston Globe’s resident anti-Israel columnist James Carroll. These moves as well as much of the program of the 3-day conference which presented several panels discussing whether anti-Zionists should be embraced by the community are…
The slurs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama after last week’s G20 summit were revealing as well as repugnant. Thinking no one other than Obama could hear him, Sarkozy attacked Netanyahu, saying, “I can’t stand to see him anymore, he’s a liar.” Obama responded by whining, “You’re fed…
The following video is deeply disturbing. Reported in Spain’s ECD Seguridad newspaper, the video portrays two of Spain’s apparently famous clowns visiting a public pre-school in the Basque city of Navarre and then joining with the toddlers in a local folklore festival. What is disturbing is that the children are all dressed as Arabs, replete with gowns, khafiiyehs and in…
Over the past week, there has been an avalanche of news reports in the Israeli and Western media about the possibility of an imminent Israeli or American strike on Iran’s nuclear installations. These reports were triggered by a report on Iran’s nuclear program set to be published by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency later this week. According to…
You have to hand it to the Palestinians. They decided to abandon the peace process and seek international recognition of the “State of Palestine” – a state in a de facto state of war with Israel. And they are pursuing their goal relentlessly. This week their efforts bore their first fruit with the UN’s Educational, Scientific and…