He's only joking, isn't he?

Letter to The Guardian, making light, I hope, of the rights of diaspora Jews to vote in Israeli elections.

If the Palestinian diaspora are to be allowed to vote in the Palestinian elections, which I would support (Letters, January 3), perhaps it is time we Jews in the diaspora, whom the Israeli government keeps purporting to represent, should have a vote in Israeli elections.
Michael Ellman
London

The bad news here is that I have heard rumours that the World Zionist Organisation wants to set up some kind of worldwide Jewish parliament. Let's hope that's just a joke as well.