Saturday, July 10, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Queers for Palestine: Stockholm Syndrome by proxy - 'Some of the strangest phenomena in the admittedly strange landscape of the Left are "Queers for Palestine" (or QUIT -- Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism), "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" (QuAIA), etc. Many commentators have pointed out the irony in the fact that gays and lesbians cannot live openly in either the Hamas or Fatah dominated areas of 'Palestine', where homosexuality is -- officially or unofficially -- punishable by torture, prison or death, and that many gay Palestinian Arabs have fled to Israel...'
