Water Libel

One of the Righteous State's various lunatic fringes has walked out of the Knesset because of an insufficiently craven attitude on the part of the European Union. The offender was Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, who committed the gaffe of mentioning Palestinian suffering even as he protested that the EU intended doing the usual next-to-nothing about it. Schulz is German, which provided the basis for a wholly acceptable and civilised ethnic snipe by one Naftali Bennet; the Righteous State having been the sole legitimate memorial and redemption of the Nazi Holocaust ever since the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Bennet, an economics minister as befits one afflicted with religious mania, called on the Netanyahoo to demand an immediate correction of the lie that Israelis consume seventy litres of water a day, as compared with seventeen for Palestinians. The World Bank found some years ago that Israelis had nearly four and a half times more water than the Palestinian invaders; but Israel's own national water authority said that the discrepancy is considerably smaller, so one would be a fool and an anti-Semite to believe otherwise.