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Aussie Dave | Jul 10, 2012 | 21 comments
..comes courtesy of the Times of Israel
Yeah, I’d say. Or should I say at least one man Arafat was inside.
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An Aussie immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave is founder of Israellycool, happy family man, and lover of Australian sports and girlie drinksFiled Under: Aussie Dave
For a straight, religious Jew who is also a family man, you do seem to have a dogged interest in gay sex, Aussie Dave. Not that I’m offended at all, but how many posts about Arafat being a closeted homosexual with an emphasis on the “funny” aspects of gay sex does it take to expose the dead PLO leader’s hypocrisy? Again, it’s your blog; talk about anything you like. But there does seem to be something other than exposing hypocisy going on here in the way you treat this subject.
Villainous plus a homo and dead?
What’s not to like?!
I don’t condone this homophobia either.
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Now now Shy Guy. I still appreciate you.
That is brilliant, Shy Guy. To post and then delete your own comment — you couldn’t possibly have said anything worse than what some of us imagine you might have posted based on previous experience. Brilliant!
Let’s play 20 questions. What did I [want to] post?
This will give you chills, Shy Guy. You posted a picture of yourself crying with a bowl of spaghetti over your head with the words: “Everyone’s a stupid idiot!” Am I right?
I am not homophobic if that’s what u r implying and am offended u would think that, given your familiarity with this blog. Rather, I keep mentioning Arafat’s homosexuality in light of the ridiculous poisoning allegations. Arafat was not a villain because he was gay. He was a villain for being a murderer and pedophile. His gayness is only relevant in debunking allegations of poisoning.
In this case, I saw a pun opportunity and felt the need to take it. I don’t have a homophobic bone in my body (yes, a bad turn of phrase!)
I apologize that I offended you by my comments, Dave. I am not calling you homophobic, but maybe a bit insensitive, that’s all. I just think there are better ways to expose the thoroughly despicable Yasser Arafat, without alienating an otherwise supportive gay readership by constantly referencing gay sex acts over and over again. That’s just my sensibilty on this subject.
“…but maybe a bit insensitive,… without alienating an otherwise supportive gay readership by constantly referencing gay sex acts over and over again.”
I see a grand opportunity for a détente based on avoiding what grates on our sensitivities: That I avoid any derogatory references to homosexuality, in exchange for Jim avoiding suggestions that Israel give up land to the Arabs and ethnically cleanse Jews from their homes in Judea and Samaria.
Deal?
Deal. I enthusiastically support a democratic Israel deciding it’s own fate without unwanted influence from any other country. Now, does this mean you’ll be marching in next year’s gay pride parade in Tel Aviv next year?
Good.
“Now, does this mean you’ll be marching in next year’s gay pride parade in Tel Aviv next year?”
Isn’t that a leap of logic? The détente applies to this online discussion; in real life, we all do as we please (or, more accurately, we have other considerations and reservations than online).
About the gay pride parade, I’m neither going to march in support nor to protest. Since the gay issue is often compared to that of race, I surmise the solution might be the same: Be neither ashamed nor proud of what you are. Heterosexuals don’t shout their sexuality from their rooftops, so neither should you.
Judaism holds all sexual acts to be a matter firmly hidden behind closed doors—all of them, whether heterosexual or homosexual. Now, not all sexual acts behind closed doors are OK in HaShem’s eyes; but whatever is done behind closed doors is the subject of judgment by HaShem alone. In other words, those gay pride rallies, by getting sexual matters out to the public view, can only backfire, by making it no longer between you and God alone.
Some detente this is! You’ve got to be kidding about heterosexuals not shouting out about their sexuality. I receive unsolicited e-mails from places like foxyvixens.com (or something like that) to go on a date with my pick of foxy ladies. Being attractive to the opposite sex is the basis of a great deal of advertising on tv, the internet and print media. I get bombarded by straight sexuality every day. It is ubiquitous to the point I stop noticing after awhile.
No more posts about God’s judgment of what any of us do in our own bedrooms. This is my last territorial demand!
“I receive unsolicited e-mails from…”
Yeah, much as ladies receive unsolicited e-mails talking about enlarging an appendage they lack. Just like I receive Nigerian scams. Sorry, but spam is not an indicator of gays being discriminated against.
“Being attractive to the opposite sex is the basis of a great deal of advertising on tv, the internet and print media. I get bombarded by straight sexuality every day.”
They want money, and they want it from the majority. So, again: Not an anti-gay conspiracy. In a venue where gays are the majority, the advertising would cater to you. That’s basic capitalism.
“It is ubiquitous to the point I stop noticing after awhile.”
Then what are you yakking about?
“No more posts about God’s judgment of what any of us do in our own bedrooms.”
One would think a post about God’s judgment of what you do in your bedroom would be received quite well, as compared with a “Sanhedrin will rise again and then gays will be done the same as those who pronounce God’s four-letter name! HaShem Hu HaElokim!” rant, but I wasn’t counting on the greatness of your sensitivity.
Alright, alright, we’ll play it your way. But I warn you, one whiff of talk about “reaching a peace agreement with the Arabs” that involves the Jewish State getting smaller, and I start spelling Arafat’s name with a different last letter taken from nearer the beginning of the alphabet.
His homo lifestyle isn’t our concern. Surely there are worse things?
His hypocricy in pretending he wanted peace and a state for his people, when in reality he wanted to destroy Israel. That is what concerns us.
Rot in hell, Arafat
Arafat’s lifestyle may not be our concern, but the disputed cause of his death and the ability of his widow to extort huge sums from the PA is, since it affects, no matter how subtly, Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbors.
His sexuality is of interest (and hilarious) because it REALLY shows up what a dreadful hypocrite he was, and because it highlights the truly insane hypocrisy of a nascent “State” that torments, oppresses and outright murders gay men while idolizing a particularly unpleasant and dishonest one. I don’t see anything homophobic about this – in fact, I would say that Palestinian homophobia is the target of this humour much more than homosexuality itself. I say this as a bisexual woman myself, who abhors homophobia and heterosexism.
Well said Katya.
Yes, that’s the idea. It’s not about gay-bashing, it’s about the hypocrisy of a lot of gays (not Jim, though—credit where it’s due) bashing the only state in the ME that accords them the right to life, just like the hypocrisy of other groups (feminists, secularists, anti-racism activists) bashing the only state in the ME where espousing their causes doesn’t send you to an early grave.
By the way, the Cairo-born Arafat wasn’t a Palestinian even in the loosest sense of the word. I’d have though that would matter somehow to the scum at Mound o’ Scheiss, always so quick to note how “white-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Brooklyn Jews” (no racism here, none at all) have “no connection to Palestine,” but apparently not. Just kidding, of course: I know very well there’s a cause to be upheld by the anti-Zionists, and logical inconsistency sure isn’t going to interfere with that cause.
Arabs consider it a victory when one of their own only buggers little boys and not livestock. Livestock are more valuable and shouldn’t be tampered with.