LGBT Pride in Israel
Dan Kliman

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* Pride parades take place annually in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Eilat and Haifa. Attempts by Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious groups to stop the parades, mostly in Jerusalem have consistently been blocked by the Israeli Supreme Court.
* The first transgendered person to win the Eurovision contest was Israeli Dana International in 1998 with her song, "Diva". Eurovision is watched by hundreds of millions of people through Europe, Asia and Africa.
* Openly gay singer Ivri Lidder is agmonst Israel's most popular enetrtainers
* Openly gay movie producer Eytan Fox has become one of Israel's most important film exporters to the world, with his movies "Yossi and Jagger", Walk on Water" and "The Bubble".
* Openly gay politicians have served in the Israeli Kenneset and on the city councils of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

For more information
The Agunah, Israel's main LGBT civil rights organization
www.aguda-ta.org.il/

Jerusalem Open House, the LGBT community Cenetr of Israel (also serving the Palestinian territories)
www.worldpride.net

Gay Middle East, covering Israel and the entire Arab world
www.gaymiddleeast.com

Go gay (Hebrew language portal)
www.gogay.co.il

The Third Reich came up with some innovative technology, too. So what? It didn't make the Third Reich not a racist state. Israel is a racist state. Zionism is racism.

Because Israel gives Gays and lesbians full rights, its racist? What?????
The Nazis killed their gays, btw.
Thats what the pink triangle was about.

That's not what I said. Stop trying to put words into other people's mouths. It's dishonest.

Israel is racist because, like its Nazi mentors before it, it treats Jews differently than it treats non Jews. That is racist by definition. Nothing it does for Gays, and no amount of technological innovation, cancels that out.

" That is racist by definition."

Can you name one country that doesn't?

Even America gives the entire population off for Christmas- its a Christian holiday. Sure seems like preferential treatment to me.
Thats the inherent problem with nation states the way they are.

The Middle east is among the worst offenders in the world. The 22 Muslim nations also treat Jews differently than Muslims.
Jews can't own land, can't be citizens, etc....

The world is unjust. Politics suck. But I know- lets start by doing away with Israel.

Uh Huh.

If “they do it, too” were a valid excuse, Hitler would be off the hook for killing those six million Jews, because Stalin killed six million Ukrainians.

So you agree that all countries are flawed, but insist that only Israel should be punished for it?
What exactly bothers you about Israel?
Could it be that many people there are Jewish?

Here is where this screed started.

It is that the Zionists have a birthright of murderous theft of palestinian lands because Zionist are such better people CRAP.

And you thought that the ubbermensch / supierior beings rant went out of style in the 1940s? Hardly.

yet another (ANOTHER!!!!) way that Zionists have made themselves comparable to NAZIs.

Since its been clearly established that the self-identified "Palestinians" are the descendants of economic migrants from surrounding Arab countries during recent historic times, their claim isn't based on any ancestral claim but rather on the basis of Moslem Supremacy. By Moslem law, any land ever owned, or occupied by a Moslem becomes part of the Moslem Wakf forever, and if lost, must be re-taken by Moslems. Thus the "Palestinians' actual claim to Israel is that they happen to be of the same religion as the Arab Armies that once conquered Israel.

The only just solution is a single, secular, egalitarian society in which it doesn't matter who your mother was or what name, if any, you use for deity.

Zionists will *never* agree to this for as long as the rest of the world allows them to keep on living, because equality is anathema to Zionists. It is the precise opposite of everything Zionism stands for.

>their claim isn't based on any ancestral claim but rather on the basis of Moslem Supremacy

Not all Palestinians are Moslem. The Christian Palestinians want the Zionist foot off their neck every bit as badly as do the Moslems.