Settlers Smash Ice to Protest Settlement Freeze
Participants steal headline writers’ go-to pun
January 04, 2010
Today, in front of the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem, West Bank settlers smashed a symbolic house made of ice—symbolic, because what they really want smashed is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declared freeze on West Bank settlement construction. Get it? The ice represents the freeze? Thaw thaw thaw, very funny.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.