A leader of a major Palestintian terrorist group cited gay Israeli soldiers as a factor that shows Israel can be defeated militarily.
Abu Oudai, chief rocket coordinator for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, hailed Hezbollah's performance in the war in Lebanon and said in an interview with World Net Daily, "If we do [what Hezbollah accomplished], this Israeli army full of gay soldiers and full of corruption and with old-fashioned war methods can be defeated also in Palestine," the Israeli website Ynetnews reports.
Think about that the next time you see American leftists marching in solidarity with Israel's enemies.
11 Comments for “Terrorist Says Hezbollah Defeated ‘Gay’ Israeli Soldiers”
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
I am not a gay separatist, but I have often fantasized about what a gay country built on the Israeli model would look like. If it attracted just 1/2 of the gay people of the world to live in it, it would have 250 million people, a booming economy, likely be one of the major (if not THE major) exporters of culture, and would also have a military which would be one of the fiercest and most powerful fighting forces on planet Earth.
The Hizbollah propagandists are fooling themselves if they think that they “defeated” anyone other than the Lebanese civilians who they use as their unwilling human shields.
I say that as someone who hasn’t taken sides on most of these conflicts, and who doesn’t favor US intervention in the conflict either.
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
The other thing you’re forgetting, Steven, is that the Republican Party “agrees with the terrorists” and “is siding with the terrorists against freedom” in their own continued view which supports the anti-gay ban. The logic of al Aqsa and the GOP is identical on this issue.
posted by Craig2 on
Incidentally, isn’t it time someone wrote a conclusive article about Hamas and Hizbollah’s stance on homosexuality?
I came across something in a recent Index on Censorship journal edition, but that was before the current Lebanon conflict.
Er, also note the ultra-
Orthdox Jewish right isn’t all that enlightened about lesbian and gay issues either, though…
Craig2
Wellington,
New Zealand
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
My friend Brett Lock at Outrage! in London has worked extensively to highlight persecution of gay and lesbian people by the Palestinian, Iranian, Iraqi, Algerian and Zimbabwean governments. Predictably, the “progressive left” have accused him of being “racist, Islamophobic” and “having the wrong priorities” by “attacking the oppressed as oppressors” and “encouraging cultural imperialism.”
At one demonstration he attended with a group of like-minded activists at a “Peace for Palestine” rally, he and other gay people were roughed up physically and attacked by a ragtag group of liberal Anglican clergy, Socialist Worker Party members, and Islamic radicals as “MI5 employees” and “haters” for carrying signs which read “Israel, stop persecuting Palestinians; Palestinians, stop persecuting queers.”
If you’re waiting for people with a political-religious agenda on the right or the left, or their apologists, to admit that the Muslim states of the Middle East are engaged in an anti-gay pogrom, you’re going to be waiting a long time.
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
If you want more recent evidence of the left’s love and cherishing of Muslim theocracies’ pogroms against our people, just have a quick look at Scott Long’s and Paula Ettlebrick’s efforts to sabotage the grassroots rally for Iranian gays facing persecution. Long even went so far as to mouth ex-gay terminology in stating that stating that Iranian gays are indeed, gay, is “cultural imperialism” which “imputes a Westernized gay identity” upon them — in other words, gay is a cultural phenomenon and a choice, rather than a sexual orientation. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute would agree with that view 100%.
The reality is that the far left in America is scrambling, desperately, to paint the Iranian regime in the best light because they fear a Bush administration attack on them — and gone so far as to paint Green Peter Tatchell in Britain as a Bush administration invasion supporter. . . a ridiculous notion which approaches the insane. Lots of people supporting the Iranian gay community are liberals, libertarians and conservatives who oppose military intervention and the far left’s claim that Bush plans to invade Iran on a gay rights platform suggests they need to spend less time thinking about picketing the White House and more time thinking about checking into a nut house.
posted by kittynboi on
“”””Think about that the next time you see American leftists marching in solidarity with Israel’s enemies.””””
I already do.
Fred PHelps, Pat Robertson, and the Palestinian terrorists use the same rhetoric.
posted by ReganDuCasse on
Hunh….Tuskeegee Airmen, the Red Ball Express, Windtalkers…the Enigma machine, Buffalo Soldiers.
We’ve been there before in military history, when minority outsiders turned the tide of war.
Underestimating gay courage and talent and success, will be the undoing of this global village.
We see who is hiding behind who…
posted by Xeno on
Northern Libertarian, Regan,
Let us not forget the Sacred Band of Thebes, and how they performed in battle. If a gay civilization were to exist in a similar model to Israel, I believe it will certainly flourish. I’d imagine that recent closet cases and “ex-gays” will end up with the lowest social status.
posted by etjb on
(1) Are you suggesting that American leftists do not be critical of the Israeli government polices without being automatically homophobic?
(2) Why is this mans comments terribly shocking? The homophobia of religious fundamentalits is well known. This another attempt to cover the middle east, without looking at what is going on for gays in Iraq?
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
I don’t really care about who is critical of the Israeli government, since none of the “critics” are Israeli. And our outrage is indeed selective, because the same left-wing groups screaming with rage and comparing Olmert to Hitler were scrabling, ala Long and Ettlebrick, to play interference for the murderous homophobic regime of Ahmadinejad in Iran.
If the Republicrats have a genuine interest in helping the oppressed peoples of the Middle East, we could start by easing our asylum policy to create a safe haven for all people there who face oppression which makes life intolerable (or impossible).
But as usual, the Republicans and Democrats close ranks to not only tighten up the asylum system to send legitimate asylum seekers — gay and otherwise — back to certain death (just look at what the Bush administration’s judges are doing to gay Jamaicans who flee in terror). . . they’re also unwilling to consider legislation which would equalize immigration rights for unmarried foreign partners of gay US citizens.
So you’ll pardon me if I dismiss their cries of “moral outrage” as the same tiresome politics of empty rhetoric we’ve been hearing since the mid 1980s.
posted by etjb on
“And our outrage is indeed selective, because the same left-wing groups screaming with rage and comparing Olmert to Hitler…”
All of them, or just the ones Fox News tells you about?
“scrabling…to play interference for the murderous homophobic regime of Ahmadinejad in Iran.”
How about the political right that seems oblivious to the murderous homophobic regime in Iraq? I have not met a democratic leftists that supports the murder of gays in Iran or Iraq. I can not say that about gay conservatives who treat Bush as their j/o toy.
If the Republicrats have a genuine interest in helping the oppressed peoples of the Middle East, we could start by easing our asylum policy to create a safe haven for all people there who face oppression which makes life intolerable (or impossible).
But as usual, the Republicans and Democrats close ranks to not only tighten up the asylum system to send legitimate asylum seekers — gay and otherwise — back to certain death (just look at what the Bush administration’s judges are doing to gay Jamaicans who flee in terror). . . they’re also unwilling to consider legislation which would equalize immigration rights for unmarried foreign partners of gay US citizens.
So you’ll pardon me if I dismiss their cries of “moral outrage” as the same tiresome politics of empty rhetoric we’ve been hearing since the mid 1980s.