The Tribal Update plans the Negev Intifada


On this week’s Tribal Update, the television on internet show we produce at Latma, the Hebrew-language Hebrew satire site I lead, Ronit and MK Abdul Messit plan the Negev Intifada against the backdrop of new riots in the Beduin community. We also present the frustration of the enlightened radical artists who can’t get the public to feel anything but contempt…

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Out of South Africa


Last month I was invited to South Africa by the South African Zionist Federation. The visit, my first to the country, opened my eyes to the daunting challenges facing the country and its dwindling Jewish community of 70,000 16 years after the end of the apartheid regime.   South Africa is a country of paradoxes. On the one hand, it…

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We are not for sale


Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned.  Over the past week, it has been widely reported that the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are conducting secret negotiations regarding future Israeli land surrenders to the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem. According to the reports, the Obama administration has presented Netanyahu with a…

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The forgotten victims of “peace”


Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assasination.    As happens every year, the Left marked the day by talking about Rabin’s wonderful legacy of peace and how if he had been alive there would be peace today.    Everyone forgets to mention that when he was killed Rabin was reconsidering the entire Oslo process due to the massive…

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The Age of Dissimulation


Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation. Today our leading minds devote their energies and cognitive powers to figuring out new ways to hide reality from themselves and the general public.   Take US President Barack Obama’s senior counterterrorism advisor for…

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Jamil and Awad do jihad and Tom Friedman pays a visit


In this week’s Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet satire show produced each week by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit, we bring you Jamil and Awad’s marvelous jihad adventures. We also celebrate the great Tom Friedman’s recent visit to Israel and we bring you to the border with Egypt where we celebrate this year’s 10,000th illegal alien.   Latma…

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The Scott Brown precedent and Israel


On Tuesday, US voters are set to repudiate US President Barak Obama’s agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his behavior in the face of a similar repudiation last January, it is safe to assume that Obama will not abandon his course.    Last year, in an attempt to block Obama’s plan to nationalize healthcare, Massachusetts voters elected Republican Scott…

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Back again after a trip to South Africa


Sorry to all of you for not being in touch. I was in South Africa for the past week on a lecture tour sponsored by the South African Zionist Federation that brought me to Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.    It was an extremely enlightening experience for me and hopefully I’ll find the time to sit down and write…

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Latma brings you…Pallywood!


On last week’s show, one of our sketches was a satirical expanation of Pallywood in light of the latest move to fabricate a story in which Israelis are portrayed as heartless beasts who run over children.  Here it is as a separate item. Please disseminate far and wide!  

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Obama and the US-Israel alliance


  Israel’s opposition leaders spent the past week trying to prove their relevance. On Tuesday, both former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of wrecking Israel’s relations with the US. Both Livni and Olmert claimed that Netanyahu is taking a knife to Israel’s most valuable alliance by refusing to bow to US…

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