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Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch then proclaimed that Hezbollah’s missile launches ought to be blamed on the pride festivities. An Arab-Israeli member of Knesset fired further, not only noting causality, but promising it: “If they [gays] will dare to approach the Temple Mount during...
What is surprising however, is the amount of the city's seculars (69% by one count) who also oppose the parade, though less out of revulsion and more to avoid trouble. Here’s the rub however: the parade is not actually passing through the Old City or the...
Yet the parade was cancelled last week. With the war in the north, the police claimed they couldn’t provide the many officers needed to protect the event from religious people who might disrupt it. Jerusalem, my beloved poet Yehuda Amichai once wrote, is a place where even...
This is a pretext. The authorities have been biting their nails for weeks now on how to move the parade elsewhere. Earlier on in the month, the city’s police issued this quite embarrassing statement: “in Tel Aviv, they are more accustomed to such large...
There is simple conclusion: given the chance, extremists seized the opportunity to intimidate a gay pride parade from happening in Jerusalem and seculars, not wanting trouble, supported them.