The real question associated with the "battle for Jerusalem" between the ultra-Orthodox community and the homo-lesbian community was not the pride parade or its prevention, but rather, the racist and fascist attitude objectors displayed towards those who initiated the parade.Did you catch that? Those that opposed the "Gay Pride" parade displayed a racist attitude! How long will people use words that they don't understand? What does racism have to do with opposition to the parade? Does this guy think that the homosexuals are a race? I've already blogged that people have a habit of calling their opponents racists without understanding the meaning of the word.
The rest of the article isn't any better. Particularly offensive was this sad piece of demagoguery:
What would the Orthodox do had Jewish law marked the left-handed, elderly, and all those above six feet or blue-eyed as unworthy and deserving of stoning?I've seen this kind of argument raised by those who oppose Brit Milah (cicumcision). They ask, "If God told you to cut off your entire sexual organ would you do it?" Of course the answer is that the "law of the Lord is perfect", and the Torah does not request silly, harmful, and/or unnecessary acts.
A quick search in Google teaches us a little bit more about Dr. Muli Peleg:
Samuel Peleg, or Muli Peleg as he is known in Israel, is a long time peace activist. After his military service as a tank commander in the Israeli Army, he became the spokesperson for the Peace Now movement and then became the close advisor and confident of Yossi Beilin, the former Minister of Justice and the initiator of the Oslo Agreements (1993) and the Geneva Accord (2004). Professor Peleg has been a top advisor on leadership and peace processes for the Peres Center for Peace and the New Israel Fund. He has also counseled the Prime Minister’s office, the Foreign Office and the National Security Council.These are your intellectuals, O Israel!
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I love those "What if...?" propositions. They're always funny and always completely irrelevant. I remember in 7th, with my favorite Rabbi, we always used to asked What if questions, and when they got to a ridiculous point, he would always use the same saying, and it's stuck with me ever since: "What if my grand-mother had wheels? She's be a trolley car." That says it all.
-OC
race?
They use slight of hand to take the attention away from the issues and shove a little guilt down peoples throats in the process.
As for Torah, they don't believe in it anyway and so they easily mock what it says with outrageous suggestions.
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