So, let me get this straight—a gay Palestinian, who has been living in Israel with an Israeli partner for years, gets denied entry to Israel, can’t go back to his home town because he’s already been tortured by the Palestinian “police” and will be murdered if he returns, so he is currently living with—a religious settler in the West Bank? What’s that? A devout Jew is saving the life of a homosexual Palestinian?
“I can’t go back to my home in Israel; I can’t enter the village. The only option left for me is to hide out in a settlement, in a home that accepts me in a humane way,” said T. on Tuesday.
I think the gay community that is so stridently against Israel is working for the wrong side.
Granted, it seems like the defense forces are screwing this poor guy, and yes, things like that really do suck for the Palestinians. But the reasons for the checkpoints and the suspicion have been borne out by the many terror attacks, and even more attempted terror attacks. Just the other day, a Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli soldier manning a checkpoint.
But—reverse the situation, and the gay guy dies. Gee, I wonder if Sullivan will bother to cover this story. Probably not without much hand-wringing about how evil Israel is preventing the Palestinian from getting back in.
Gays, like the rest of us, will always have a certain percentage of idiots in their midst. But in this case, their support of “Palestine” and hatred of Israel are so astonishingly against their own self-interest, it makes you wonder just exactly how stupid they really are. My guess: “Extremely.”
Their perceived self-interest is succeeding in achieving their goals in the USA. Being well thought of by the anti-Israel left is more important to them than logical thinking. They figure the left will help them achieve their goals in the USA and they could give a rat’s patootie about any homosexuals tortured by Arabs. After all, the Arabs, being “browner” than the Israelis and being anti-American “Third Worlders,” are the good guys by definition to most leftists. The victims are in a far away country and American homosexuals know little of them.
You might want to rethink your choice of metaphor and imagery given the context of this story:
“Granted, it seems like the defense forces are screwing this poor guy, and yes, things like that really do suck for the Palestinians.”
That’s two for two.
Just because something happens in Israel and Palestine, doesn’t necessarily mean it directly relates to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. If we look at this story through the lens of the conflict, then we’re compelled to choose sides, as always. But if we just take the story for what it is – a source of inspiration showing how disparate people have found their common humanity – then we might actually learn something.