Politicians are full of hot air. After complaints by deputies who were feeling ill the Israel's parliament was found to have high concentrations of carbon dioxide. This is the gas people exhale when breathing - or speaking. But this has nothing to do with the fact that it is a fundamental breach of human rights. But, worst of all, a recent assessment of the costs involved found that the price of one execution is equivalent to keeping three prisoners in a maximum security prison for 40 years.
Politicians are usually willing to make any wild promise and tell any lie to get elected.
Harbi Bdeir, standing in Gaza for a seat in the Palestinian Authority, will try anything. He promised to make the area a new centre for the international airline meals business. A neat trick, as Gaza has no airport. Profits are booming everywhere. Fortune 500 magazine has already declared the financial year ending in 1995 as 'one of the most profitable ever' for business.