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Friday, October 30, 2009

Just sue them

YNET - opinion - Yair Lapid
We sat in the small and well-kept backyard at the home of Israel’s ambassador in London, Ron Prosor.

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we need to sue them. Every journalist who refers to us as “war criminals” or “child killers” needs to know that the next day his newspaper will be slapped with a million pound lawsuit on behalf of the State of Israel.

Newspapers don’t like lawsuits... It takes time, it costs money, the paper’s insurance company raises their premium, stockholders are wondering why they got into this mess to begin with, and the editor in chief is infuriated after he discovers that he needs to waste two days on testifying in respect to an article that he didn’t even read.

...And who will represent us? Asked someone else.

Him, I gestured at the lawyer sitting with us, and a hundred others like him. If the Jewish people has one reservoir that will never run out, it’s lawyers. Every Western capital boasts at least five successful Jewish law firms, and most of them will be glad to represent the State of Israel against the new anti-Semitism.

The lawyer in the group suddenly looked up. It will work, he said. I’m willing to take London upon myself. Full story