By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO─ The new coalition formed by Benjamin Netanyahu is the most right-wing government Israel has ever had. It is so right-wing that if Israel were a ship of state sailing West on the Mediterranean towards the Atlantic, it would run aground on Cyprus the first day.
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B.B. King died this week. The thrill really is gone.
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The Georgia principal who made a racist comment at the end of a commencement ceremony was fired. She claimed that Satan put the words in her mouth. Theologians who were consulted to confirm whether Satan operates this way replied that Satan is merely a code word for bigotry.
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The jury in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced him to death. He is scheduled to share a cell in hell with Baruch Goldstein and Timothy McVeigh.
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The NFL handed down a four game suspension to quarterback Tom Brady for knowing about the deliberate deflation of footballs during a playoff game. Baltimore Raven Ray Rice received a two-game suspicion for knocking his girlfriend unconscious. A generation of young NFL fans has learned that it is a lesser offence to hit a woman than to needle a football.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com . San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.