Let's think logically about the things I said on Qweerty and about the Qweerty response to them.

Qweerty said "we think the world's tired of seeing Israel use its weapons"

Hamas, the rulers of the Palestinians, has a charter that says "Israel shall exist until Islam destroys it."

So were Israel to lay down its weapons and never use them, Hamas would overpower Israel and transmogrify that territory into an Islamic state under Sharia law.

Sharia law calls for gays to be killed. Currently in the Palestinian territories, gays are regular the victims of so-called "honor killings."

Obviously then, if Hamas replaced relatively gay-friendly Israel with an Islamic state, the gay people living in that area would be subject to a mortal danger under which they do not presently live.

The logic of that is plain to see.

The complaint I voiced to Qweerty stated that if its concept of Israel not using its weapons were carried out in the real world, gay people would suffer very severe consequences.

They labelled that as "insane."

I think that's just about all anybody needs to know about Qweerty.

Hello Michael:

Qweerty today called you "virulently" pro-Israel.

Here are dictionary definitions of "virulent"

1) Extremely poisonous or pathogenic. Said of a disease, toxin, or microorganism.

2) Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; venomously spiteful, full of hate.

3) Intensely irritating, obnoxious, or harsh.

The first meaning isn't the one they had in mind as it applies to toxins.

If they understood "virulent" to have the second meaning, then they> were saying that the way in which you are pro-Israel is "full of hate"

If they understood "virulent" to have the third meaning, then they were saying that the way in which you are pro-Israel is "obnoxious."

How do you feel about that, and do you think that by calling you
"virulently anti-Israel" they made up for the errors they made yesterday?

As an Irish lesbian very concerned about human rights around the world, I want to repeat a post that I made on qweerty regarding its manifest bigotry:

Didn't see the post yesterday but reading through it now I see you said offensive things beyond the "one little line." Your writer also said about Michael Lucas "thanks for respecting our country so much, but we suspect he doesn't love it as much as Israel. " I have a Master's in Sociology and my specialty is Ethnic Prejudices. The claim by Americans that Jewish-Americans have greater loyalty to Israel than the US is a common form of anti-Semitism. It's on a level with saying that all homosexuals are child abusers. The people who say it really believe it, and it really does reflect their bigotry. Your site has not exactly crowned itself in glory by printing that.

That is what I said on qweerty. Will they be thoughtful enough to publish a retraction of their hate speech? I doubt it. I know how bigots operate.

That qweerty writer should get his gay ass lynched somplace in the Gaza Strip and then we'll see if he still thinks Israel shouldn't defend itself . . . which, after all, is just different wording for "the world is tired of seeing Israel using its weapons." The same irrational hatred that the Muslim Arabs have against gays, they have against Jews.

The qweerty writer's response to you was flippant and obnoxious.

He shouldn't comment on serious matters, period, if he sums up the defense of his position by saying "it's hardly as deep as all that."

You, Michael, cared enough to express your concern over a matter of grave consequence. He owed you a serious response.

And his saying "Perhaps my statement was a bit one-sided" is not the same as would have been 'I acknowledge that my statement was unfair and will post a clarification on the site."

Lucas,

People like the editor of Queerty know very well that if the Palestinians were to give up there weapons there would be peace,they also know that if Israel were to do so she would be wiped off the map. It is very easy to attack Israel and make it seem like the Palestinians are victims but Israel is but one small country surrounded by what now consists of less than 1% of the total Arab territories. The country is but a sliver of land just ten miles wide surrounded by over a hundred and fifty million Arabs and Muslim nations.

I say this to bring into focus the realities of what is going on on the ground, it is not just Israel and the Palestinians. It is Israel and the entire Muslim, Arab world. Iran and the Arab population many who have billions of dollars use Palestinians and this conflict to diffuse attention from there government's crimes.

The facts are clear in the past few years there is a strain of anti-semtism that has grown over time in largely gay liberal circles.These views I believe are shaped over time by well meaning associations with progressive causes.

Many gay people feel that the world is separated between those who seek justice and those are opposed to it.Gay people tend to hold to the view that there should be group sympathy for the Palestinians because they are perceived in the media as the underdogs. What is neglected often in this view is context.

I still recall reading the New York Blades diatribe against Europe's most prolific intellect the gay politician Pim Fortuyn who was smeared by the left for being Islamaphobic, Pim saw radical Islam and Arab nationalism for what it was and yet he lost his life for it!

Arab Nationalism is nothing but a Trojan horse for Islamic takeover and anti semtism.
In many ways gay civic groups make a terrible mistake by assuming that all who call themselves progressives seek out there best interest. Palestine and the Arab nationalism is not the most gay friendly of popular uprisings.There view of progressive may be very different than most gay peoples.

Last year at the New York Pride parade I saw a group called "Gays for Palestine"and saw young gay man wearing the Communist leader Che Guevara T-Shirt. I shook my head wondering if he knew how Che executed gay people in death camps in Cuba. I wondered had any of these
guys had seen Renaldo Arenas "Before Night Falls."

The inability for the gay left to critique Arab nationalism and Islamic homophobic movements is the same unwillingness of the gay press to attack Communism. Many gay elites supported Communist upsisings knowing full well that members of there own sexual orientation were being killed under these same radical ideas.

They attack Evangelicals and Israel but this same gay press is almost silent when it comes to Islam .

In the past anti-semitism was mostly associated with the right. I would argue that today the primary source of anti semtism is from the left.

People like me who support Israel do not support Israel right or wrong but we support Israel if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

In the Arab world gay people are stoned to death or beheaded. Most gay people do not know that in the last few years, hundreds of gay Palestinians escape persecution mostly from the West Bank to live Tel Aviv one if Israel's most cosmopolitan city.

The reasons for this are clear in Isreal and the West gays have legal rights as citizens and live in safety and can blog about how oppressive there own countries are while pretending to represent another country.

The editor of Queerty would have been dragged in the street and beaten in Palestine for writing some of the things he has written in his blog in Israel they would have have given him a job at a local paper and there in lies the difference.

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Dear Michael:

Your attitude towards that Anshmoo of qweerpuke or whatever the site is called should be "I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent."

Others would do well to recall the words of Golda Meier who said that there will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their own children more than they hate the Jews.

We tend to agree with you, The LGBT community by its very nature should be more sympathetic to those who find themselves subjected to the harsh and often unjustified scorn of racism and bigotry.

Thank You for bringing this to our attention Michael, it means a lot to both of us!

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Anti-Jewish prejudice is one of the most, if not THE most, vicious prejudice(s) going.

I am not Jewish. But I'm opposed to all kinds of irrational bigotry, with no exceptions. And I can't tell you the number of times somebody has leaned in towards me and said "I don't know if you're Jewish but . . . " and then comes a string of the most incredible horseshit, slander against Jewish people spoken as if it were fact, and as if the undesirable quality the person had perhaps known in an individual Jew were automatically to be found in every single Jew who ever lived.

There was a film called "The Boys From Brasil", a sort of sci-fi thing of little cloned Hitlers.

You don't need the film though because the little cloned Hitlers are really walking around on the face of the earth, spreading their hate and their venom, and proud of themselves for doing it.

It also happens that . . just as with internalized homophobia producing gay people who agitate against gay rights . . . there are assholes born into Jewish families who cultivate and spread anti-Jewish bigotry.

Andrew at qweerty thinks he's cute with his flippancy; he is a big horrible ASSHOLE who forgot to do a douche before getting opened. So what can you expect to come out of him other than shit?

Anybody who hasn't been paying attention lately to what's been going on in Gaza and the West Bank should know; the Palestinians reached such a pitch of disagreement with each other over how to kill Jewish Israelis that they started killing each other. The situation got so violent that many were already labelling it a "civil war." In fact, the Hamas Prime Minister yesterday declared that the US and Israel are the ones who are causing the civil war among the Palestinians. He then urged his followers not to shoot at other Arabs but only at Israelis. That is what Israel is supposed to make peace with.

Abu Mazen, aka Abbas, is considered a "moderate." He wrote a book denying the Holocaust. It's very popular among Muslims. The Bush administration just sent him $85 million to arm his so-called "security forces." When he talks to the international press in English, he says one thing. When he talks to Arabs in Arabic, he says another. Just this week at a rally to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of El Fatah, he told his followers to point their guns at Israelis. In other words, Bush has sent guns to Muslim, gay-killing maniacs who have been instructed by one of their leaders to use them against the people of one of our most steadfast allies.

Bush is a lunatic. He's dragged the US backwards and downwards. The Palestinians never accept responsibility or accounatibility for improving their own lot. Everything is the Jews fault in their opinion, and they will even blow themselves up if in doing so they can kill Jews and achieve, so they think, martyrdom.

Palestinian school children are taught AS PART OF THEIR STANDARD CURICULUM that to become a "martyr" through suicide attacks against Israelis is a wonderful, honorable activity, which allah will reward.

What the fuck is wrong with qweerty that they would so glibly dismiss these matters, and slander Israel?

Michael,

thank you for reminding people of the reality in Isreal. I do think that so many forget it. If your neighbor was constantly attacking you and use the most difficult method to avoid...you would natuarlly be cautious.

And to note....The USA never took the steps to correct it's AIRLINE failures cause the private companies decided it was cheaper to NOT re-enforce the doors of the cockpit and to prepare for the worst. They assumed, in spite of the evidence, that all hijacking would be for transport...not political desires. HELL 1986 TWA hijacking was the precursor to the 9/11 events.