LONDON–Following passage of a law forbidding boycotts against the state, Israel has demanded that the Oxford English Dictionary change its definition of democracy so that it may still be considered a democratic power.
“This law is the product of a democratic process in a democratic state,” Prime Minister Netanyahu told ICTPT reporters. “Even if it has wholly undemocratic effects. It doesn’t mar Israel’s image in the slightest.” In unrelated news, 99 out of 100 Israelis think the law mars Israel’s image.
“Obviously, we can’t just change the definition,” said Chief Editor Edmund Weiner said. “We compromised by adding a special second one that applies only to Israel. Also, they really should have gone to the United Nations for something like this, but then, Netanyahu is making a lot of dumb mistakes right now and the U.N would have shot him down anyway.”
“Of course it’s not a dumb mistake,” P.M. Netanyahu claimed when told of the Chief Editor’s statements. “It’s a perfectly legitimate method of treating the symptoms rather than the whole disease.”
Noted Israeli mistake-making expert, Avigdor Lieberman, was unavailable for comment.
“What mars its image are the reckless, irresponsible attacks against the legitimate attempt by a democracy on the defensive to draw a line between what is acceptable and what isn’t acceptable,” Netanyahu told ICTPT reporters. “What’s next? Are people going to say that the National Endowment for Kitten Kicking legislation due to pass next week isn’t ‘appropriate?’”
Among the major critics of the new law are seven former and current Law School deans from around Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/dozens-of-israeli-law-professors-protest-unconstitutional-boycott-law-1.373152
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/world/middleeast/12israel.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast
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