It is still difficult to assess how Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will govern in his next government. The public has little interest in begging the Palestinians to return to negotiations. But then the Israeli public has rarely had much interest in pursuing fruitless deals with unreformed Palestinian terrorists. The only reason we continue to chase deals with them is because…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s new political superstar Yair Lapid, the former talk show host and celebrity anchorman and current head of the brand new Yesh Atid party are busy at work hammering out our next governing coalition. President Shimon Peres is expected to formally task Netanyahu with forming the next government in a few days. The question everyone…
In Friday’s episode of the Tribal Update, produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical website I run, Ronit returns from maternity leave, Flock Builder builds Yair Lapid’s winning coalition, we bring you a look at Israel’s voting festival, and we present a response to the far Left’s viral pre-elections clip “I’ve had it,” that attacked everyone and everything that isn’t part…
Since I came home from London, subsequent events have borne out my dim assessment of England, and done so at break-neck pace. As one of Britain’s great righteous gentiles Douglas Murray wrote in an essaypublished yesterday by the Gatestone Institute, England is no longer even trying to hide its anti-Semitism. At this point, to live well in the kingdom, Jews…
Tuesday’s election were an extreme expression of the public’s indifference to the Palestinians. Aside from Tzipi Livni and Meretz on the Left, and the failed Otzma L’Yisrael far right party, all the parties either paid scant attention to the Palestinians or ignored them completely. Twenty years after Yitzhak Rabin shook Yassir Arafat’s hand on the White House lawn, Israelis just…
On this week’s Tribal Update, the television-on-internet show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site I edit, we feature President Barack Obama sharing his underwater fantasy with our viewers. We also feature the Israeli media waxing sophisticated on the 10 year anniversary of the jihad against Israel. Enjoy! Here is the full program. And…
By Iranian and Hizbullah accounts, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon next week will be a splendid affair. The man who stole his office and then killed his countrymen to protect his crime will be greeted as a conquering hero. Billboards bidding him welcome and Iranian flags will line the roads from the Beirut airport down to the border…
A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous amount of construction went on throughout the last 10 months. The Arabs of Judea and Samaria were not only building without restrictions, the US, Europe and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf bankrolled much of their construction. The…
There’s a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it’s a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently first discovered in June. Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran’s industrial complexes – including its nuclear installations – are its main victims. Stuxnet operates as a computer worm. It is inserted into a computer…
Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit decided to celebrate Succot with a special program of bloopers set against the pastoral backdrop of the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage Tawil Fadiha’s Peace Succah. Enjoy!