“It’s scary to think that change is possible without killing people.” Tel Aviv, March 30 – Weeks of protests against the Israeli government’s proposal to overhaul the country’s judicial system have left their neighbors baffled, especially the ones under the ...
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“I know this is spitballing.” Tel Aviv, March 22 – A political activist sparked outrage among her colleagues today by floating the notion that in a democracy, the best way to ensure one’s preferred policy outcomes involves engaging enough voters ...
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“There’s a fundamental flaw in a system that allows people to vote if they haven’t contributed to the society in very specific ways that happen to dovetail with my experience, strengths, and biases.” Tel Aviv, March 13 – A former ...
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“Can we get someone to clean the monkey poop off the- oh, sorry again, that’s just the Opposition’s comments on the Judicial Reform Bill. It’s getting so hard to tell the difference.” Jerusalem, March 1 – Legislators sought to execute ...
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“Somehow I also ended up invited to someone’s wedding? I might be hosting a Sheva B’rakhot? I don’t even know what happened there.” Jerusalem, February 20 – The personification of temptation to evil sought to score a victory today over ...
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“Ours is the noble kind of corruption. The democratic kind. Theirs is the fascist kind.” Jerusalem, February 9 – A proposed reform of Israel’s judiciary system and other elements of its legal apparatus has that system’s megalomaniacal establishment worried it will ...
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“Aryeh, I see you on the court, bringing to bear a sensibility that those cloistered, wealthy ‘intellectuals’ could never muster.” Jerusalem, January 31 – Israel’s highest judicial body ruled two weeks ago that an ally of the prime minister who ...
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“I have already instructed the police and other agencies under my aegis to provide me with a picture of the available technological capabilities.” Jerusalem, January 19 – A far-right element within Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition announced today that ...
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Israeli democracy, despite having been killed repeatedly since 1977, itself constitutes a wonder, but not on the same scale as the eternally-underage, immortal Shukri. Jenin, January 11 – Media reports and commentary noted this week the growing number of times ...
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The planet and most of its inhabitants and social phenomena appeared unmoved by the frequent resort to such locutions as “hardline,” “far-right,” “nationalist,” “warmonger,” and “war criminal.” Jerusalem, January 2 – Dire predictions notwithstanding, the Earth continued this week to orbit ...
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