Bibi's bad week
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakened Israel this week. And he did so for no good reason.Thursday's headlines told the tale. The day after Netanyahu bowed to US pressure and announced a total freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria for ten months, Yediot Aharonot reported that the Obama administration now wants Israel to release a thousand Fatah terrorists from prison.The Americans also want Israel to allow US-trained, terror-supporting Fatah paramilitary forces to deploy in areas that are currently under Israeli military control. Moreover, the Americans are demanding that Israel surrender land in the strategically crucial Jordan Valley to Fata

During a recent s...
During a recent speaking tour in Canada, MK Nahman Shai (Kadima) shocked some of his hosts when he said that his primary goal in politics today is to bring down the Netanyahu government. Although indelicate, Shai's comment was not surprising. Kadima is in the opposition. And like all opposition parties in all parliamentary democracies, the primary goal of its members is to bring down the government so that they can take power.Given that this is the case, it is unsurprising that until this week, Kadima leader Tzipi Livni tried to blame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for US President Barack Obama's hostility towards Israel. Far more newsworthy than her criticism of Netanyahu wa

Video - Latma on Ft. Hood attack
In the past I have shared with you subtitled versions of my work at latma.co.il, the Hebrew language satirical media criticism website that I founded and run. Below is a sketch we produced last week about the Ft. Hood massacre. Please spread it far and wide. Also, a few weeks ago I posted a version of a sketch we did last month with our regular guest, "Tawil Fadiha, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage." We produced a musical  sketch following Palestinian rioting in Jerusalem after Arab leaders incited them with false allegations that Israel was planning to destroy the Dome of the Rock

Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
Once again, US President Barack Obama has demonstrated his intention of "putting light" between America and Israel. His hostility toward Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter's visit to Washington this week was breathtaking.It isn't every day that you can see an American president leaving the prime minister of an allied government twisting in the wind for weeks before deciding to grant him an audience at the White House.It isn't every day that a visiting leader from a strategically vital US ally is brought into the White House in an unmarked van in the middle of the night rather than greeted like a friend at the front door; is forbidden to have his pict

Robert Gates' interesting priorities
Check out this AP story about how Nidal Hasan was just charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.The notable quote here is Robert Gates' statement at the end about leaks to the press regarding Hasan's ties to an al-Qaida linked imam:Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he was appalled at news leaks about the   investigation into last week's deadly shootings at Fort Hood. "Frankly if I found out with high confidence anybody who's leaking on the Department of Defense, who that was, that would prob