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Joe Millis

Opinion

The worse it gets, the better it'll be

July 13, 2011 19:00
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As the Jerusalem Post's excellent Larry Derfner points out here
http://israelleft.com/2011/07/13/bring-it-on-national-camp/
and here
http://israelleft.com/2011/07/12/thanks-for-the-anti-boycott-law-shmucks...
Bring it on. No more fig leaves, no more excuses.

It’s a great law, let’s use it. Let’s sue Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, along with the chief rabbis of Herzliya, Ra’anana, Rishon Lezion, Ashdod, Ashkelon and about 300 other rabbis, all of whom are promoting the boycott of gentiles trying to rent apartments from Jews. I’m sure that if the anti-boycott law hasn’t been written in a way to protect these rabbis, it will be amended for that purpose – and that would also be good.
Anything that’s bad is good. Each new crude, totalitarian-minded act makes Israel look that much worse to the democratic world, which brings the democratic world that much closer to running out of patience with this country, with what it’s become, with what it’s doing.
Only when the democratic world runs out of patience with Israel will the public here demand change – out of fear of being ostracized.
Until then, bring it on, National Campers. And to my comrades on the Left: No more fig leaves for this country, no more running to the Supreme Court. It’s too late for that, Israel is too far gone. This is not a time for checks and balances; it’s a time for polarization.

and

This was a case of the right-wing being given enough rope - political power - to hang itself. To me, it’s a reminder of the power of the two restraints on the fascist tendencies in the Israeli public and its elected representatives: the court system and the opinion of the democratic world, especially American Jewry. Although the Supreme Court hasn’t struck down the law yet, I don’t think there’s any doubt it will. And the law, which is such a crude violation of free speech, plays so badly with the U.S. government, European governments, the world media, the American Jewish establishment and everybody else except, of course, the Republican party.

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