CitizenPained
Dissident-Jude
Even though the major religions grant the right to marry, Israel recognizes civil marriage performed outside of Israel. Including same-sex marriage. Oh yeah, everyone has health care and they don't stone you for having a gay pride parade.
In Gaza, they kill you for being gay. Even the AlJazeera buddy the Beeb will grudgingly tell you that.
Israel may not give them residency rights, but they don't deport them and they don't kill them, either.
(Note that Pal terrorists have also disguised themselves in ambulances and as pregnant woman and ended up being suicide bombers or assailants, so...)
Inside if Israel (esp Tel Aviv), Israelis and Palestinians in gay bars have something in common. It's a weird uh, arrangement for bedfellows.
In Gaza, they kill you for being gay. Even the AlJazeera buddy the Beeb will grudgingly tell you that.
A number of gay Palestinian men are risking their lives to cross the border into Israel, claiming they feel safer among Israelis than their own people.
According to some estimates, there are now 300 gay Palestinian men secretly living and working in Israel.
Their willingness to live there - despite the risk of being detained and deported as a security threat - is due to Palestinian attitudes towards gay men, they claim.
One 22-year-old gay man who fled from Gaza into Israel four years ago told BBC World Service's Outlook programme he was almost killed when his family found out about his sexuality.
He says that when he was 18, he was caught with his boyfriend by his brother.
"[My brother] brought a stick and hit us," he said. "He tied us up with an iron rope and went to call my dad, and tell my partner's. Then he came back and hit us again."
Israel may not give them residency rights, but they don't deport them and they don't kill them, either.
(Note that Pal terrorists have also disguised themselves in ambulances and as pregnant woman and ended up being suicide bombers or assailants, so...)
Inside if Israel (esp Tel Aviv), Israelis and Palestinians in gay bars have something in common. It's a weird uh, arrangement for bedfellows.
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