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Eli Yishai: Cometh the Sabbath, cometh the man

September 19, 2010 20:53
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Shkoyach, Eli Yishai! Finally, someone with the principles to stop those immoral chilonim from paying their bills online on Shabbat and chagim (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3954262,00.html). Whatever next with those godless bounders?!

Following the inspired decision to end Daylight Saving Time a week and a half into September – over a month and a half before Europe and two before the US – so that charedim can have a psychologically easier fast on Yom Kippur (who cares that it now gets dark at half past five?!), I look forward to further ingenious measures from Mr. Yishai to curtail the liberty of secular Israelis, especially in their own homes . . .

When will he table, for instance, a new law prohibiting the IBA, HOT and Yes from broadcasting on Shabbat and chagim? Or, better still, one forcing Israel Electric to cut off power supply for 24 hours to people who are proved (by a Beit Din, of course) not to be shomer Shabbat? That’ll stop the heathens desecrating Hashem’s Day of Rest by pouring boiling water onto their tea bags!

I also commend Mr. Yishai’s efforts to deport those four hundred children (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3935904,00.html). After all, who cares that they were born in Israel, are Hebrew speakers, and consider this their home? And what "lessons from the Holocaust"? Many of their parents are even from Africa and a different colour (no offence, Mr. Yishai).