We'll be the Judge, Episode 11

The first season of the "establishment version" of Latma is ending. What's next? I don't know.


What do you think?

The New Latma #6

The sixth episode of the Israeli satire program "We'll be the Judge," from the creators of Latma's Tribal Update, Israel Channel 1, March 12, 2015.

English subtitles

New Latma, We'll be the Judge #3 Watch English Subtitles

Here's the third in the new Latma series, We'll be the Judge... which appears on Israeli television, Chanel 1!

The New Latma with English-Subtitles, Enjoy!!

Thanks to Caroline Glick's Latma team for translating (subtitles) the new Latma, the Right Israeli satirical show, which now appears on Chanel One every week. It's longer than the old Latma and has mostly different actors.



Latma is otherwise still the Latma we knew and loved when it was an "unofficial program," developed by Glick.

Caroline Glick is definitely one of, if not the best political thinkers on the scene today. Her Jerusalem Post op-eds are unbeatable. Here's her latest that has more truth than the rest of the newspaper.

Netanyahu’s true electoral rival

Officially, the election on March 17 is among Israelis. Depending on how we vote, either Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will remain in office and form the next government led by his Likud party, or Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni will form a government.

But unofficially, a far greater electoral drama is unfolding. The choice is not between Netanyahu and Herzog/Livni. It is between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama.

As the White House sees it, if Herzog/Livni form the next government, then Jerusalem will dance to Obama’s tune. If Netanyahu is reelected, then the entire edifice of Obama’s Middle East policy may topple and fall.

Secretary of State John Kerry made clear the administration’s desire to topple Netanyahu last spring during his remarks before the Trilateral Commission. It was during that memorable speech that Kerry libeled Israel, claiming that we would automatically and naturally become an apartheid state if we don’t give Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to the PLO, Jew free, as quickly as possible.

Despite Israel’s venality, Kerry held out hope. In his words, “if there is a change of government [in Israel], or a change of heart, something will happen.”

Shortly after Kerry gave his Israel apartheid speech, his Middle East mediator Martin Indyk attacked Israel and the character of the Israeli people in an astounding interview toYediot Aharonot.Among other things, Indyk hinted that to force Israel to make concessions demanded by the PLO, the Palestinians may need to launch another terror war.

Indyk also threatened that the Palestinians will get their state whether Israel agrees to their terms of not. In his words, “They will get their state in the end – whether through violence or by turning to international organizations.”

Indyk made his statements as an unnamed US official. When his identity was exposed, he was forced to resign his position. Following his departure from government service he returned to his previous position as vice president of the Brookings Institution and the director of its foreign policy program. Last September, The New York Times reported that the Brookings Institute received a $14.8 million, four-year donation from Qatar, the chief financier of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.... (read the rest of this article; click here)

Sad News, Latma "Regroups"

Caroline Glick's weekly Tribal Updates, the best news satire ever on Latma, will no longer appear in the format we all knew and loved.  Glick explains it all here.

After 200 episodes, the Tribal Update, Latma's flagship satirical newscast is coming to a close. We were supposed to be broadcast on Israel TV's Channel 1 as the station's prime time satire show. We were approved by all the professional committees not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 times over the past two years. Time after time, they told us they were about to send us the contract. We even sat down and negotiated a contract with them a year ago, but then, each time, they put us on hold. In this fourth iteration of this farce, we have been waiting to receive a contract since Shavuot. Maybe one will arrive in the mail. Maybe it got lost in the mail. Or maybe our assessment at the outset, that the Left's control over the Israeli media is so enormous that leftist commissars are willing to break their own rules to keep a satirical voice of Zionism off the air was spot on, and they will continue leading us by the nose and pretending they are a meritorcracy and don't discriminate against Zionists for the next generation.

At any rate, we have reached the end of our financial rope. Over the past year, believing the stories we were told by the powers that be on Channel 1 that we would be moving to the small screen almost immediately, we built up the production capabilities of a top line prime time television show. And the costs, for a donation based project are just too high. So we're ending our run.

In the coming months, we will be reorganizing, downsizing and developing a new operational model based on grassroots donations and contract productions to make ourselves as self-supporting as possible.

Our Hebrew language website, latma.co.il will continue to produce new materials. And we will be reconfiguring it to suit our new aims and capabilities.

The last two episodes of the Tribal Update, this week's and next week's are a celebration of our accomplishments over the past four years, and a celebration of the values of Zionism that motivate all of our endeavors.

Thank you all so very much for your support for our work. Over the past four years we have proven that the truly cool people in Israel and throughout the world are the Zionists. The most creative, exciting and happening people are the Zionists. It has been an great adventure, and more will follow.

Here's the Best of the Tribal Update Part 1:

Arab Spring à la Latma

There's nothing like Latma's Tribal Update to make sense out of the news.



It's not enough just to watch and enjoy the shows from Latma.  Latma need our support:

Latma is funded by donations from private individuals who believe that the voice of Zionism must be heard, loud and clear, in Israel and throughout the world. We need your help in order to stay open and continue sounding our voices.

If you are in the United States, Latma is  funded by donations to the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security Project which I direct. If you would like to contribute to our work, which is funded entirely by viewer contributions, please go to this link.

For donations outside the US, here is a link to the donations page for our Israeli non-profit, the Zionist Incubator. You can make credit card donations to Latma by contributing to our non-profit. 

Caroline Glick

Shabbat shalom

Latma! Keep It Going, Please

I just received this from IMRA

Let Latma Win! - appeal to keep Latma running
By Boaz Haetzni

Latma
http://www.latma.co.il/elatmatv.aspx

Okay, the moment has arrived.

Latma will be closing at the end of July, and the bad guys are already celebrating. Gloating, joyful statuses have already begun to appear here and there, alongside slanderous and angry statuses about the (imaginary, for now) possibility that we might begin airing on Channel 1.

We also read on the internet about our contract with Channel 1. In reality, there is nothing. We are being turned away, time and again, back and forth, for two years now, each time with a different excuse, and it seems that there is no end in sight. What is in sight is the end of July, when Latma’s budget runs out, and Latma will disappear.

The vultures on the Left can already smell the end. After four years of producing brave Israeli and Zionist satire that went against the stream, standing opposed to all the left wing incitement that everyone had already accepted, because they somehow convinced everyone that “that’s how satire works”. Four years where we pounded them, four years when Yariv Oppenheimer and his friends’ ears turned red from rage, when they discovered they were not immune to criticism and piercing satire.

The inciters, the boycotters and Israel’s enemies also got their fair share, from the Flotilla video on YouTube, which gathered millions of views, boosted the Israeli morale and changed the world’s viewpoint, through the “Abba” clip that infuriated the Swedes following the Aftonbladet blood libel, to our very own Tawil Fadicha, Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage. A character that never would have been created on one of the “regular” satire shows screwing up your heads on the television screen.

This is all going to end, because there’s no money left. We don’t have the astronomically huge budgets “It’s A Wonderful Land” has, we don’t have the unlimited support of organizations in Europe and elsewhere, who call themselves “Human Rights Organizations”. We don’t even have the cultural institutions budget or the haircuts that theaters like Habima get, the same theaters whose actors boycott the settlements. Standing against this sea of hypocrisy and evil, thanks to the amazing Caroline Glick, Latma subsisted until today with the help of proud Zionist Jews, who were touched by her enthusiasm and belief. But even that great force has a limit.

Today we look like a review of the sick and wounded. Caroline cares for two little children and two sick parents in the United States and travels there often, and how much more can we ask of her? Noam has his arm in a cast, but insists on coming to the filming, Ronit was lightly wounded from a stone throwing attack while traveling with her family in Judea and Samaria, but showed up for the filming two days later. I myself went through a health issue that immobilized me for two months, and I’ve not entirely recovered from it, but I’ve gotten up, come back, and continued working.

From our small studio in Petach Tikva, we kept producing editions, week after week. Persistently, without season, without taking breaks. With a lot of creative spirit, happiness and belief. But our morale has sunk and hit rock bottom. There’s a feeling of defeat.

So the bad guys win? The crows n the left are sitting on the branch and waiting. Already sharpening their beaks, already celebrating.

But you know what, that motivates me. Our answer to their evil and depravity will be more action. That’s how you always win. We won’t go down, damn it! We’ll get back on our feet, Latma will not disappear. We can’t let this amazing project fall. Latma must stay and must continue being the voice of the public that is being deprived by the media and the Left, the public that we were there for, like water to a fish, every week.

To do that, the public needs to help us. We need money. It’s that simple. Latma’s operating costs for a full month are approximately 220,000 shekels,  a quarter of one episode – one! – of “It’s A Wonderful Land”. In a year we need approximately 2.6 million shekels, for an entire year. It’s not unreachable; it’s something that if we all get up and give what we can – we can reach it. “It’s A Wonderful Land” will put out barely three weekly episodes with that kind of budget, we put out 50 episodes. With half of that
we can do half a year, with double that we can do two years, either way, it gives us the oxygen we need to get stronger and reorganize for the future.

It’s not enough to just hit “Like” or express sorrow and concern. This isn’t the time to cry, sit and whine about the country, about the left that’s taken over our lives, this is the time to act! Reach into your pocket and donate in the link below, by check, bank transfer, or credit card. Whatever you can, 20, 50, 100 however much you can. Shekel by shekel, we’ll make it.

Soon we’ll also make a fundraising film for Headstart. We will succeed, we can do it! Share, share, share, as much as you can! Send this to everyone, so it will be seen all over the country, for all I care, it can reach the haters too, who in their stupidity will share it as mockery, to defame and deride. Send it to the entirety of Judea and Samaria, to every single email, to everyone who cares about this country, that this country is important to
them.

Let Latma Win!

Direct link for donations:
http://latma.mrp-bsd.co.il/eng/

If you prefer EFT or check:

Checks issued to:
Hahamama Hatzionit (Zionist Incubator)
and please send to:
Caroline Glick
P.O. Box 841
Mevaseret Tzion 90805
Israel

EFT, Bank transfer:
Hahamama HaTzionit (Zionist Incubator)
Account # 49089
Israel Discount Bank
Branch # 510, Mevaseret Tzion

Thank you!

Boaz Haetzni

+972-54-3111686
boaz3333@gmail.com
Translation: Ben Gross

As you all must know, I'm a loyal Latma fan.  I think it's totally brilliant.

We Con The World

Caroline Glick's "Thank you Hafez al-Assad" and Latma's "Muhammad aDura lives and other PR victories"

We'll try with Latma's Tribal Update:

This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism I produce, we bring you an interview with Israel's PR guru do discuss the government's decision to leap into action and defend Israel from France2's libelous report which claimed that IDF forces killed a Palestinian boy named Muhammad a-Dura in...2000.

We also bring you and interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his talented attorney discusses the Prime Minister's expense account. And much, much more..

Latma was established by Caroline Glick and shows the Right way to see things that happen in Israel and the world.  It's also fantastic political satire, well produced, directed and the acting is top notch.

Latma is funded by donations from private individuals who believe that the voice of Zionism must be heard, loud and clear, in Israel and throughout the world. We need your help in order to stay open and continue sounding our voices.

If you are in the United States, Latma is funded by donations to the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security Project which I direct. If you would like to contribute to our work, which is funded entirely by viewer contributions, please go to this link.

For donations outside the US, here is a link to the donations page for our Israeli non-profit, the Zionist Incubator. You can make credit card donations to Latma by contributing to our non-profit.

I heard Glick speak this week at the Memorial for Manny Winston.  She voiced optimism and reminded us that the Israeli economy is much better than the American or European ones.  And of course it would have been much better if we hadn't cancelled the Lavi project.

This week's Jerusalem Post article is about Hafez al-Assad and is a must-read.  Here's a taste:

Syria is a mess because there are no good guys in a position to win. Syrian President Bashar Assad is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is a major supporter of terrorist groups. He enabled al-Qaida and Hezbollah to use Syria as a logistical base in their war against US forces in Iraq. He is a vassal of Iran. He is allied with Hezbollah. He is a mass murderer.

Since the civil war began two years ago, Assad's complete dependence on Iran and Hezbollah - as well as on Russia - has been exposed for all to see. There is little doubt that whatever checks the US was able to exert against him before the civil war began no longer exist. And if he survives in power, he will be completely indifferent to US pressure and so will behave far more violently than he did before the war began.

And yet for all Assad's horrific behavior and the reasonable presumption that his actions will only become more violent and dangerous with each additional day he remains in power, the most telling aspect of the Syrian civil war is that Israel, the US and Europe are incapable of deciding whether he is better or worse than the alternatives.

Shabbat Shalom

"The Pot Calling the Kettle Black," Latma's Take on the Latest "Bibi Scandal"

Caroline Glick's Latma, the Tribal update:

This week on the Tribal Update we bring you the Israeli media's response to the scandals now flooding the White House. (In a word, the media here have completely ignored the story.)

We also bring you an interview with a senior executive of Channel 10 - a station that exists only by racking up massive debt to the government.  And much, much more!

 

Latma is funded by donations from private individuals who believe that the voice of Zionism must be heard, loud and clear, in Israel and throughout the world. We need your help in order to stay open and continue sounding our voices.

If you are in the United States, Latma is  funded by donations to the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security Project which I direct. If you would like to contribute to our work, which is funded entirely by viewer contributions, please go to this link.

For donations outside the US, here is a link to the donations page for our Israeli non-profit, the Zionist Incubator. You can make credit card donations to Latma by contributing to our non-profit.  

I also suggest that you read Glick's latest article: Obama and the "Official Truth"

Latma's Tribal Udate Examines Obama's Advisor Great Foreign Policy Successes

The Tribal Update brings you Obama's advisor discussing his great foreign policy successes, Jamil and Awad and the suicide bomber strike in Gaza, and MK Zehava Gal On marks the Nakba.

Watch:


Shabbat Shalom

Latma Laughs at Lapid and... Lots of... Others

The pre-Independence day Tribal Update covers lots of topics. 

Ahead of Israel's 65th Independence Day, Latma's band sings about bringing back the country, North Korean dicatator Kim Jong Un comes to the studio for an interview to set out his demands, and the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage, Tawil Fadiha explains why Israel is actually worse than Nazi Germany and more like Costa Rica

Watch the show...