Sometimes the rhetoric of Israel’s Arab leadership is so overblown as to make its entertainment value greater than its cost in outrage. Take, for example, today’s outburst by Talab el-Sana, a member of Knesset and leader of the United Arab List party. El-Sana declared as “worse than the Nuremberg Laws” a proposed bill that would bar politicians who visit enemy states from running for parliament. “We will continue to visit enemy states,” he continued, “and support peace at the same time.”

Okay, reality check. Under Israeli law, it is illegal for citizens to visit countries that are at war with Israel. Yet Arab members of Knesset have in the last few years routinely flouted this law, not just visiting Syria but using these visits to show support for Assad’s terror regime and denounce Israel. This new law was inspired by the case of former MK Azmi Bishara, who not only visited Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon war, but is suspected of having actually passed strategically sensitive information to Hizbullah at the time, in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars. This act of high treason was too much for even parliamentary immunity to cover, and Bishara fled the country in advance of a possible indictment.

In an earlier post I pointed out how dramatically out of sync Israeli Arab politicans are with their own constituents, who tend to be much more sympathetic to the Jewish state. Maybe such a law is the first major step to getting the worst of them off the stage, so that a more honest set of representatives can emerge.