SLAPP Lawsuits and the Biblical Prophets
Lucky for the Biblical Prophets, SLAPP Laws Hadn’t Been Invented Yet
Otherwise, We Wouldn’t Have the Bible – Just Legal Settlements
Welcome to the country where two things happen faster than you can blink: wars — and the transformation from natural lips to “please-remove-me-from-the-oven-I’m-done” lips.
No one is suggesting throwing people out onto the street
But it is permissible to say it out loud: a budget pension is an outdated, expensive, unequal, and un-Zionist mechanism.
A post with a dash of humor and a dash of sadness about the astonishing gap between two words that are not really similar, but for some reason are labeled as “the same thing”:
There are big holidays, there are important holidays, and there is Hanukkah – the holiday that reinvents itself every generation: once a national heroic story, then a miracle of oil, then a children’s holiday, then a 15-shekel donut holiday.
Remember the good old days, when rain was just… rain? When gray skies received at most a footnote like “Take an umbrella,” and not an emergency flash on the front page that made you think aliens had landed in Ayalon Canyon?
And this time, a satirical column, sharp but not inflammatory, that seeks to address one of the popular slogans of the humanist-relativist era.
We love this country, because it is ours.
With all the mess, the congestion, the luxury and the madness… and maybe that’s why.
One of the strangest, most intimidating, and most… Israeli professions there is: bus inspectors.
So good morning, tickets please…
There are certain things in the world: the sun rises in the east, the IDF is delayed in a briefing, and the Haaretz editorial team presents Israel to its readers — but only after it has been put through an industrial guilt grinder.
Like gefilte fish: grind, add ironic sauce, and be careful not to make it feel a little too Jewish.