The Israeli Knesset’s Ethics Committee plans to distribute a list of banned words in an effort to improve the parliament’s typically overheated atmosphere, according to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv. On the list are such words as “Nazi,” “idiot” and “monster” — as well as more piquant terms like “swamp-fly,” “well-poisoner” and “zero of zeros.”
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