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Were it not for a last-minute concession by organizers, the event could easily have resulted in more serious violence. The previous week had seen repeated clashes in Jerusalem between police and curly forelocked Hasidic youths, who burned tires and hurled rotten eggs and stones. An unknown extremist Jewish group...
One rabbi even warned that a cabal of clerics had resorted to black magic, invoking a "Pulsa Denura" ("Lashes of Fire") curse against Noah Satat, 29, the outspoken director of Jerusalem Open House, organizer of the parade. Several fanatical rabbis say that such curses led to the death of Premier...
In the end, the clash between gays and the keepers of Jerusalem's three faiths - in a rare display of solidarity, rabbis, priests and Muslim clerics in the holy city all united against the parade - was averted because of security fears. (Hatred of homosexuality, it seems, is the one thing...
The security threat foremost on the minds of authorities may not have been gay-bashing extremists, but Palestinian suicide bombers creeping into Jerusalem. Palestinian militant groups have vowed to resume suicide attacks inside Israel to avenge the 19 Palestinians killed in Gaza on Wednesday when an Israeli tank gunner erroneously...
The fuss over the Gay Pride Parade also exposed some of the seismic cracks inside Israeli society, where modern, secular values collide with fiercely defended religious traditions. The sharp Tel Aviv-Jerusalem rivalry illustrates this divide. Tel Aviv prides itself on its hip nightclubs and a laid-back, cosmopolitan attitude...