I have been meaning to write about the storm raging in New York following CUNY’s board of trustees decision not to present an honorary degree to anti-Israel propagandist/faux artiste Tony Kushner but due to travels and other time killers, haven’t had the opportunity. Before it is too late, I want to add my two bits to the controversy. First, for the…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show we produce at Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run, we feature John Zelokorli (John Itsnothappeningtome), President Obama’s advisor for reality perception affairs discussing Obama’s role in killing Osama Bin Laden and the operation’s influence on the future of the global jihad. We also feature our favorite suicide bombers, Jamil…
By most accounts, the Fatah-Hamas unity deal signing ceremony Wednesday was a grand affair. Hamas terror-chief Khaled Mashaal jetted in from Damascus. PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas flew in from Ramallah. The ceremony was held under the auspices of the newly Muslim Brotherhood-friendly Egyptian intelligence services. UN representatives and Israeli Arab members of Knesset were on hand to witness…
Saturday night I was honored to speak at Young Israel of Hillcrest congregation in Queens for their annual Yom HaShoah ceremony. The address formed the basis of my latest column in the Jerusalem Post. Before I spoke Eva Luxe-Braun, a Holocaust survivor and extraordinarily valiant women shared her story with the congregation. Dave Reaboi from the Center for…
In the end, the Holocaust raged until the Allied powers won the war. It didn’t have to be that way. If the Jews had been permitted to leave Europe, the Holocaust could have been averted. But the only place that wanted us wasn’t allowed to take us. The nations of the world closed their gates. Only the Jews in the…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show we produce at Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I run, we feature an interview with the wise judge who presided over the panel that acquitted three Arab defendants who beat Arik Karp to death in front of his wife and daughter of murder charges and convicted them instead of manslaughter. …
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren’t tragic. Immediately after the news broke of the deal Netanyahu announced, “The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both.” Netanyahu’s statement is funny because it is…
If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral impetuses to its foreign policy. Today, US forces are engaged in a slowly escalating war on behalf of al-Qaida penetrated antiregime forces in Libya. It is difficult to know the significance of al-Qaida’s role in the opposition forces because…
Last week I was in Washington meeting with lawmakers about recent events in the Middle East. Among other things, I gave brief remarks at the Center for Security Policy national security luncheon on the hill. Speaking with me were Cong. Allen West, an extraordinary man and great American patriot and friend of Israel, and Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of…