Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Where is the Knesset?

In a country where 80% is the most you can hope for, sometimes our government can't even get close to 20%. Like thieves in the night and using Obama's visit as cover, yesterday our wonderful Knesset passed a bill formalizing the previously illegal act of funding religious high schools that do not follow the state curriculum. These ultra-orthodox schools do not teach core subjects like math, civics and English. Clearly they spend many hours studying the ultra-orthodox essentials like parasitism, money grabbing and the art of sponging off tax paying Israelis. The passing of this bill to legalize something that has been going on illegally for years, is truly annoying, but what bothers me as much is that only 45 of the 120 members of the Knesset showed up to vote. I pay these people to do their jobs, so where are they?

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