Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Judenrein Palestine? Nein!
PM Netanyahu released a YouTube video claiming that Palestinians advocate the "ethnic cleansing" of Jewish settlers as a precondition of peace negotiations: It’s nutty diplomacy, but might he have a point about the position of settlers in a future Palestinian state?
Derailed
PM Netanyahu's compromise with the ultra-Orthodox over controversial railway maintenance on Shabbat angered many in the Opposition, who claimed the PM had been railroaded, and that his policy is on the wrong track and a potential train wreck.
On the internet, everybody thinks you’re a dog!
We discuss scholarly suggestions that internet discourse in Israel is so mean because so many Israelis yearn to stick it to the leftist "lame-stream" media. But are Israelis really more mean on the internet than folks from other places?
All songs by The Energya Psychotronics:
She’s My Sister Insincerely Yours Valerie-Ann My Imagination