Bradley Burston is somewhat vituperative in today’s Haaretz:
When the Messiah comes, the Occupation will end.
But before it does, a global social network led by the Republican Jewish Coalition, Fox News, The Zionist Organization of America and Daniel Pipes, will launch a campaign aimed at exposing the Messiah as a Muslim.
When the Messiah is crucified, the army will deny that he was even present at the time.
I don’t even know if you can publish stuff like that in American newspapers. I’m pretty sure you can’t even consider publishing stuff like this:
When the Messiah comes, he will be questioned by a junior officer of the Shin Bet, and by an official of the Interior Ministry, who got his job through his cousin, who is an inspector of ritual dietary observance at a cookie bakery and who got his job through his sister’s father-in-law, third assistant to the deputy chair of the Shas party branch in Ramla.
When the Messiah comes, no one will know.
Which is to say that Israel’s press remains freer than ours when it comes to being critical of Israel. But, also, it is to say that something stinks in Tel Aviv.