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IDF allows gay Palestinian to reunite with Israeli lover
Nir Gontaj
Published: 25.03.08, 08:59
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31. To Tom in San Francisco the gay capital
Simon ,   TA Israel   (03.25.08)
Boy do you have issues, so what gives you the right to spread your homophobic hatred and rantings to a country that you do not live in. What about aboriginee rights in Australia. Just because you do not approve someone elses life style does that give you the right to judge and slander. Regarding your threat not to read on line news , please go ahead somehow i think we will all manage, hay tom boy
32. Great Story - Lover Conquers All
Seth ,   Washington, DC   (03.25.08)
33. Woe unto Israel for you have defiled yourself
Jack ,   San Diego, USA   (03.25.08)
34. Good reporting Ynet, you don't ignore issues we face
Eli ,   Jerusalem   (03.25.08)
It's good to know you're covering all of the stories out there, and not giving preference to gripes of the religious.
35. #8, #19
chaim ,   Israel   (03.25.08)
You first need to understand that I didn't write the book. I didn't promote hate to the INDIVIDUAL , or slander, or anything else. Re-read. It said that it is an abomination. That is a quote. Hitler sent them to the death chamber. Did I say they should be killed? No, I simply stated what the Torah says, something that the Judicial system, and liberal rabbis are afraid to teach, and afraid to "upset" somebody. Keep reading the Torah. It also speaks of murder, extortion, lying, sexual imorality, and a host of many other things that we ignore. The people of Yirmeyahu were whoring and going the way of the goyim and also called him a religious fanatic and to keep his religious views to himself. Well, tell me, what happened? Remember, read the Torah, then look at who wrote the book. It doesn't say Chaim.
36. That is disgusting
Original Nabulsi ,   Nablus   (03.25.08)
That is disgusting disgusting,disgusting disgusting
37. #27 - Bye Tom..nobody will miss your sniveling readership.
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (03.25.08)
Perhaps you can stick to the hetersexual articles famous in SAN FRANCISCO!!! Mmmwaaahaaa!!!
38. IDF allows gay
Voice of Reason ,   Here & Now   (03.25.08)
So this is what passes for news these days. YNET should follow up on this story, are they to marry. Will they adopt a child, Arab, Jewish, Israeli Pali or what. Ah don't you just love these human interest stories? May they both live their lives in peace and quiet. Be back soon I have to go puke.
39. Good decision...good article...I wish them well....
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (03.25.08)
The Jenin guy would get offed immediately. I am glad the IDF can see the humanity of this and that it was the right thing to do.
40. #25 - the "gay lobby" supports "arab ethnic supremecy?!""
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (03.25.08)
Are you retarded? WTF does this have to do with the gay lobby (whatever that is), the Palestinian cause or arab ethnic supremacy? You sound like a shell-shocked fundamentalist christian pastor from the US and your post is completely demented. This is a story about two people with a political problem that the army was smart and good enough to solve with relative ease.
41. # 38 voice on reason ? voice of homophobia more like
Simon ,   TA Israel   (03.25.08)
Sorry just read your posting, is see hatred , intollernce and homophobia is alive and well. The ashes of 500,00 gay men also went up with 6,000,000 jews i see you still support this idioligy, exscuse me why i am physically sick just knowing people like you exist.
42. to 35 , Chaim
Hiram ,   sfat   (03.25.08)
Understanding and following the Torah is a matter of personal relationship with God. In other words, it is YOUR choice. Do not pass judgement upon the rest of the world in the name of something YOU believe in. If you allow TORAH to be the only light in the world , this means that you impose upon others specific beliefs. It is a matter of simple respect to let people lead their life as they want provided you are not the One who will judge them . ! Believing is a matter of personal relationship with God . May be the reality of the world and the differences in people scare you more than you think ?
43. Sometimes we have also GOOD news
charles ,   petach tikva   (03.25.08)
Yes , GOOD news . Not news of murder , rape and so . News of a love story with a [ momentarily ] happy end . Hope this momentarily will become definitive . And let all the hatred filled people look at what happened to this boy in Ariel , because of hatred . And i'm not gay and certainly not a messianic , but i'm against this violence , by words or by deeds .
44. This would NEVER happen in an Arab Palestine!
Joe ,   Ramat Gan   (03.25.08)
45. Thanks to YNET for lots of great articles about gays
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (03.25.08)
I am so delighted to read about it on your site!
46. I love the photo. What a nice couple!LOVE,LOVE,LOVE
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (03.25.08)
47. Gays in Jenin? A lot. I personally know of 2 wonderful souls
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (03.25.08)
48. #3, The two could be a part of interfaith conference in SA
AK   (03.25.08)
49. I Agree with Chanalau for Once
(03.25.08)
They should go to London. They disgust Jews and Muslims alike.
50. Hitler Was Gay Too Simon
Thomas   (03.25.08)
"In 1945 a Jewish historian by the name of Samuel Igra published Germany's National Vice, which called homosexuality the "poisoned stream" that ran through the heart of Nazism. (In the 1920s and 30s, homosexuality was known as "the German vice" across Europe because of the debaucheries of the Weimar period.) Igra, who escaped Germany in 1939, claims that Hitler "had been a male prostitute in Vienna at the time of his sojourn there, from 1907 to 1912, and that he practiced the same calling in Munich from 1912 to 1914" (Igra:67). Desmond Seward, in Napoleon and Hitler, says Hitler is listed as a homosexual in Viennese police records (Seward:299). Lending credence to this is the fact, noted by Walter Langer, that during several of those years Hitler "chose to live in a Vienna flophouse known to be inhabited by many homosexuals" (Langer:192). Rector writes that, as a young man, Hitler was often called "der Schoen Adolf" (the handsome Adolf) and that later his looks "were also to some extent helpful in gaining big-money support from Ernst Roehm's circle of wealthy gay friends" (Rector:52). "
51. NO NEWS?
Soeren ,   Cologne/Germany   (03.25.08)
When reading the comments I would say, it's definitely NEWS. It's politics, obviously. Hiram (#19) and Simon (#8) are right in what they say. Furthermore, who bothers about these two men. It's their cup of tea. As long as the Palestinian behaves properly according to the laws... The Major-General issueing the permit is obviously not an ignoramus. And that's good for Israel – not only in times of battle. The real ridiculous thing is that – sooner or later – the Palestinian leadership will come again and complain about "human rights violations": they see them everywhere – but never in their own actions... real funny circus...
52. To anonymous # 49 , shame on you
charles ,   petach tikva   (03.25.08)
They disgust Jews ....You wrote . Only a fraction of the Jewish people is disgusted , don't talk in the name of all of us . Those who are disgusted , are also those hatefilled guys , shame on you , hating people . Did you forget : ve'ahavta et re'echa kamocha ?
53. ve'ahavta et re'echa kamocha
(03.25.08)
"love every man as yourself". i think we interpret that differently.
54. Yum!
Abu Bin Ricktum   (03.25.08)
Finally a future.
55. #27 Tom from SF
Gino ,   Sausalito   (03.26.08)
Tom, how can you speak like that when all you need to do is look out your own window. I dare you to go out on the streets of San Francisco, your home town and yell what you just wrote here. I bet you would be beaten in the streets as SF is the gay haven in the USA. I guess you might be a queer too, but trash others like the Gay Jew you are.
56. Hitler killed 55,000 gays
Andrew ,   Sydney Australia   (03.26.08)
Thomas (50.) brings up anti-gay conspiracy theories about Hitler to somehow blame Nazism on the gay community... Funny that didn't stop the Nazis killing 55,000 gays during their time in power (read and learn- http://peter-rivendell.blogspot.com/2007/07/70-years-after-nazi-pogrom-hamburg.html). Yes, Ernst Rohm was gay- and Hitler had him and other gay officers purged from the SA and killed. Hitler had very well documented relationships with his niece and Eva Braun. Talk about blaming the victim for the crime. I've heard idiots say Hitler had a Jewish maternal grandmother- that's not true, but say it was, by your logic Thomas, would the Holocaust would be the fault of Jews? Blaming entire peoples for the actions of a few what the Nazis were all about- and that you share with them Thomas.
57. Father of gay rights in Germany was Jewish too
Andrew ,   Sydney Australia   (03.26.08)
Also Thomas (50.) the "debaucheries" of the Weimar period you describe were the result of a growing attitude of tollerence for gays that was largely the result of work of Dr Magnus Hirschfeld a gay German Jew who pioneered research into human sexuality in Europe and set up a Sexology Institute in Berlin which amongst other things campaigned for the decriminalisation of gay rights. On taking power Hirschfeld's institute was ransacked and it's library burned (you know the famous footage of the Nazi book burning? That's Hirschfeld's collection). Hirschfeld was persecuted by the Nazis until his death in 1935 and many of his collegues and supporters were killed by the Nazis or ended up in concentration camps. Please stop trying to blame Nazism and the Holocaust on gays when they were amongst it's chief victims.
58. Hate, Hate, Hate
Kathleen ,   Los Angeles, CA   (03.26.08)
Do you think that you, an American from San Francisco, can influence the content that is posted on this site? Surely you can come up with better words than repeating abomination. One thinks you protest too much.
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