But the bill automatically provides tax breaks to Arab NGOs that finance the expansion of Arab villages—mostly illegally—and the settling of Jerusalem.

First, we do not even try to ascertain the refugee status of Eritreans. In every other country, the burden of proof is on the refugee, but crazy Jews have transferred that burden to our own government, presuming Eritrean asylum claimants to be trustworthy. The government, of course, has no resources to check their claims, and so they stay here and raise the crime rate.

Two, we do not check the refugee status of Sudanese immigrants because they come from an enemy country, and we cannot verify their claims. It must be a special mental disease which allows Jews to welcome people officially designated as our enemies, and it is no wonder they turn into criminals here.

The only solution, we contend, is deporting all the Africans to UNRWA camps in Gaza. The UN has an existing infrastructure for refugees there, so that is where they belong.

After the Justice Ministry vetoed that draft, Lieberman came out with a nominally constitutional draft which halves the benefits. It is patently absurd to pay them any benefits, but at least there would be a statement.

Curiously, Arab MKs decried the new legislation as racist. True, our terrorists are Arabs.

The problem is that Netanyahu is not sure that his own faction would vote against the haredim. Thus the threat of new elections targets his own MKs.

Netanyahu’s choice now is to press the anti-haredim law and lose the haredi parties in his government—leaving it open to blackmail by Barak’s leftists—or call new elections, which would still leave the haredi parties holding the trump card to form the coalition. Effectively, there is no choice at all, but only postponement: Netanyahu has to reach compromise either with the haredi or the leftists.

Most likely, the PM will settle for a watered-down version of the Tal Law.

The army simply cannot integrate the 60,000 haredi men who now receive deferments. They would die rather than accept the numerous violations and desecrations which the army forces on them for no reason. The proper approach would be to reform the army first to make it religiously acceptable for Jews, then draft the haredim.

True, the haredim can join the National Service instead of the army, but the service cannot accommodate that many unskilled volunteers.

Matters become even worse when the law is applied to the Arabs. Clearly, they would rather join the National Service than the army. So we can either have huge numbers of young, radical Arabs in mainstream Jewish organizations, or the Arabs can be fictitiously employed in the Arab sector and paid by Israeli government. What is the solution? There is none. Not in the multinational nonsense of the contmporary Jewish state.

MK Rotem quoted Maimonides to the effect that every Jew is obligated to work, even if he learns the Torah. The quotation makes sense, but quoting it is silly: every religious Jew knows that Rabbi Karo’s later opinion to the contrary has prevailed. And if MK Rotem is so fond of Maimonides, why not quote him on the question of Arabs in Israel?

Now, that was a well-known misnomer. Tibi indeed spoke of the casualties of the conflict, whom he called “martyrs,” rather than terrorists. His audience understood perfectly that “martyrs” usually means “suicide bombers,” but technically Tibi remained within legal limits. To tell the truth, Tibi is a pro-Palestinian activist, but he does not support insurrection or terrorism; such military activism would render Arab politicians like him irrelevant.

Compare the smart Arab to the stupid Jew. Writing in the Foreign Policy, Oren boasted that Israeli democracy is so vibrant that it tolerates Arab MKs who call for our destruction. For the rest of humanity, however, that is not a sign of vibrant democracy, but of suicidal stupidity.

Clearly, the law is absurdly broad, and it also makes little sense because laundering political donations through a fund is a slam-dunk affair.

But even more absurd is that the Knesset is so weak intellectually that its members tremble at the prospect of competition from a sharp-tongued journalist.

Since then, “those who have served in the IDF or the National Service” has become an acceptable euphemism for “Jews.” So MK Ben-Ari has fielded a bill which would bar those who did not serve from judicial positions. Theoretically, the bill targets not only Arabs, but also haredim, but they refuse state offices anyway.

In response, Arab MK Tibi fielded an alternative bill barring from judicial positions those who live “in a place that violates international law,” i.e., settlers.

Curiously, the Knesset’s legal advisor approved both bills as technically non-racist, though on numerous occasions the Attorney General has banned such euphemisms, including attempts by Jewish employers to limit job offers to IDF servicemen.

Jewish religious law plainly prohibits any non-Jew from occupying any position of authority in the Land of Israel, including judges, of course.

The bill stipulates that the Bar Association’s two members of the Judicial Selection Committee should come one from the governing party, and another from the opposition. The bill was necessary because Supreme Court justices routinely pressed the Bar Association to appoint only members of the leftist persuasion, thus engaging in blatant politicking.

Livni’s opposition to this commonsense bill shows her to be a part of the ultra-left power conglomerate.

While the move seems contrary to freedom of expression, it is much warranted in Israel. In Western democracies media competition inflicts its own punishment on lying media. No news outlet can afford to lie excessively because it would lose its audience by being continually exposed by competing news sources. Thus there is little need for judicial punishment.

The situation is different in Israel, whose major media outlets all pursue a similar agenda, except perhaps for a single tabloid. There is no political competition; on the contrary, they inflate one another’s lies. Such a quasi-monopoly calls for government intervention, and the proposed bill provides it.