Latma's "The Three Terrors": 2 Years Later, Nothing's Changed

I came across this musical number from Latma from 2010 and as I listened to it, I realized that nothing has changed:

• There are still sanctions that Iran is laughing at
• Bashir Assad is still a genocidal killer
• Erdogan is still Erdogan

Oh, and this musical satire from Latma is still a classic:

The Middle East Media Sampler 8/10/2012: Israel Lives In A Tough Neighborhood

From DG:

1) Embattled democracy  

"Next week, Mahmoud Abbas will enter the 92nd month of his 48-month term, and now has Yasser Arafat’s record in sight. Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority in 1996, running essentially unopposed (his opponent was a 72-year old woman with no political party). In 2004, in the ninth year of his four-year term, he left office on account of death. His second-in-command was elected president less than two months later, running essentially unopposed (Hamas boycotted the election). Abbas is now midway through the eighth year of his own four-year term, almost certain to break Arafat’s record if he can just stay healthy."

Palestinian “President” Nears Record by Rick Richman

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Daniel Pipes: Anarchy Surrounds Israel

The following by Daniel Pipes is reposted here with permission.

Anarchy Surrounds Israel

by Daniel Pipes
July 18, 2012
Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner

Of Israel's neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the first twenty years, 1948-68, this did not present difficulties to Israel; only when the Palestinian created a state-within-a-state there did its anarchy became a major challenge to the Jewish state, as symbolized by the Beirut airport raid of December 1968. Many skirmishes followed as well as two wars (those of 1982 and 2006). Lebanon remains anarchic and the home base for Hezbollah; it could well be a future Arab-Israeli battlefield.