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They're here, they're queer - be proud of Israel
By Bradley Burston

JERUSALEM - I'm proud of the State of Israel. It may have more faults per capita than any nation in the world, faults which are duly broadcast, rerun, critiqued, and condemned as nowhere else. It may have more critics per capita than anywhere else in the world, in particular among its majority population of restive, instinctively kvetching, eternally disappointed Jews.

I know every criticism by heart. I'll see your every damning denunciation, and raise you 10. But I am proud of this country, and the gay pride parade in Jerusalem goes a long way toward explaining why.

I am proud of a country which - under the burden of a 24/7 threat of Islamic Jihad terrorism, under a daily Hamas barrage of Qassam missiles on a small town in the Negev, under an explicit Iranian threat of erasure in the future and client militia brushfire wars in the near present - deploys 8,000 police, nearly half of its entire active-duty force, to protect a parade in Jerusalem by a minority group that is routinely denigrated by many members of two of the holy city's largest and most vocal communities: the ultra-Orthodox and the Palestinians.

I am proud of the gay community, which made strenuous efforts to assure that the parade would be held in areas far from the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods and other areas where the march would serve to offend residents.

I am proud of the police for standing up to yeshiva students who, screaming "Nazis! Nazis! Nazis!" at the officers, pelted them with rocks, bottles, angle iron and Molotov cocktails, all the while breaking windows, smashing streetlights, and setting fire to tires and garbage dumpsters.

I am proud of ultra-Orthodox rabbis and yeshiva masters, who, though appalled by the parade and what they see as the abomination of homosexuality, publicly and unequivocally forbade their students from taking part in violent demonstrations.

I am proud of a country that scorns the slimy Meir Kahane disciple Itamar Ben-Gvir when he screams at gay celebrants in a Tel Aviv parade "the Nazis should have finished you off."

I am proud of the policeman on King David Street who, when asked by a passing pre-schooler about the flag with the rainbow colors, replied, "There are boys who love boys, and girls who love girls."

I am proud of a country in which the army's influential radio station airs the views of the daughter of the prime minister when she states that the right of gays and lesbians to march in their capital city is as inherent as their right to vote.

Just as I am proud of Israel's last Eurovision song contest winner, an acclaimed diva who began life as a man, who told a television interviewer why she believed that in the interest of respect for the holy city, the parade should not be held there.

And I am proud, as well, of the fact that Israel Television gave air time to a rabbi to explain his strong opposition to the march, and to the woman anchor who, asked by the rabbi what she would do if her son told her she was gay, said that she would hold him and be grateful for his openness.

There are many who argue that a Jewish country cannot countenance a public celebration of homosexuality. It is time for them to take the advice of leading rabbis, who placed this announcement in the Lithuanian Haredi newspaper, as quoted by the Jerusalem Post:

"Demonstrating should be done by each person in his place [by feeling outrage in the soul, by praying and beseeching (God) against the loathsome blasphemy]."

All of us who live here have our personal list of obscenities, perversions and abominations, as committed by our fellow Jewish residents of Israel. We may find their actions politically abhorrent, culturally unbearable, spiritually bankrupt, personally offensive.

They are a big part of the price of living in this country, riven along fault lines dividing and enraging left and right, secular and religious, Mizrachi and Ashkenazi, sabra and immigrant.

It may be the built-in flaw of a Jewish homeland, this infighting among the Jews it has brought home.

But as the gay pride parade proves, the most profound strength of a Jewish country are those Jews who strive to learn to live with the Jews with whom they so profoundly differ.

We're here. By definition, we are all of us, each in our own ways, queer. We should, all of us for our own reasons, be proud.

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  1.   We may all be queer, but... 21:36  |  Ben Azai 21/06/07
  2.   i13 million dollars worth of intolerance 21:54  |  tziporah heller 21/06/07
  3.   Why Be Proud? 22:00  |  Bandar Michaels 21/06/07
  4.   well said 22:03  |  ben 21/06/07
  5.   Well said BB a good tour de force 22:04  |  Don Camillo 21/06/07
  6.   There is no choice 22:29  |  C McCoy 21/06/07
  7.   13 million spent 22:34  |  John 21/06/07
  8.   Ode to B 22:58  |  Joyce 21/06/07
  9.   Not a day to be proud of Israel 23:33  |  JewishHeart (Sean) 21/06/07
  10.   Bradley-From a Messianic Jew 23:37  |  JewishHeart 21/06/07
  11.   "proud" or humble, which places others ahead of ourselves? 23:40  |  Virginia 21/06/07
  12.   Yashar Kocheca to the author 01:37  |  David Hoffman 22/06/07
  13.   I like this article. 01:47  |  Carl 22/06/07
  14.   Kol hakavod 02:27  |  Zvi 22/06/07
  15.   Just A Feeling 02:56  |  Tony Anthony 22/06/07
  16.   I am proud of Israel 05:46  |  Nathan 22/06/07
  17.   Thank you 06:24  |  Sarah Klein 22/06/07
  18.   And I`m proud of Bradley Burston for writing this article 06:46  |  Smadar 22/06/07
  19.   What FOX likes about the Left 10:05  |  FOX 22/06/07
  20.   ALL JEWS HERE ARE `ODDBALLS` 10:15  |  Richard E Sherwin 22/06/07
  21.   Okay Bradley! Yeah, But Why... 10:20  |  Yosemite 22/06/07
  22.   # 1 ben...i think bradley`s point went right over your head... 10:40  |  eric 22/06/07
  23.   I did not hate them before but I hate them now 10:43  |  Efox 22/06/07
  24.   With plenty of armed guards 10:43  |  Efox 22/06/07
  25.   Why not march in Mecca? 10:45  |  Efox 22/06/07
  26.   Gay ,,,Queer....Jarusalem 10:52  |  Zoe 22/06/07
  27.   # 18 oh yes indeed fox; you are right on money! 11:01  |  eric 22/06/07
  28.   Acceptance of Multiple Viewpoints is a Jewish Value 11:09  |  michal 22/06/07
  29.   John, not only police... 11:18  |  Karl 22/06/07
  30.   They`re here, they`re queer.. shed a tear 11:19  |  dan 22/06/07
  31.   # 25 attaboy efox, you seem hellbent... 11:23  |  eric 22/06/07
  32.   proud of Israel 11:30  |  Ralph 22/06/07
  33.   why be proud? 11:55  |  Frederico 22/06/07
  34.   #5 WHO THE HELL TOLD YOU THAT CAMILLO 12:11  |  paul harris 22/06/07
  35.   Right on 12:12  |  Natallie Durson 22/06/07
  36.   we`re all proud of our own country... nothing wrong with that 12:22  |  ravi 22/06/07
  37.   They should not flaunt it in our faces 12:33  |  Beni 22/06/07
  38.   Bradley, Gays, God, our Holy City....... 12:53  |  Miriam 22/06/07
  39.   Thanks Eric #28, Thanks for the poetries 12:56  |  FOX 22/06/07
  40.   Ben Gurion 13:05  |  JewishHeart 22/06/07
  41.   To #2: re: $13million spent.... 13:34  |  Miri 22/06/07
  42.   Bradley Burston 13:36  |  Galit 22/06/07
  43.   Bradley Burston 13:38  |  Galit 22/06/07
  44.   Because the whole country isn`t homophobic? 13:58  |  Gay to the core. 22/06/07
  45.   DEMOCRACY LOSES WHEN THE MAJORITY ISN`T ALLOWED TO RULE. 14:01  |  Mitch Iginer 22/06/07
  46.   choosing violence over democracy 14:12  |  Josh Goldman 22/06/07
  47.   How can `Left` who support gay rights support recognizing Hamas 14:15  |  Ben 22/06/07
  48.   Israel is for all people.Not just the lunatic fringe 14:15  |  Ky 22/06/07
  49.   A carnage averted, bomb plot thwarted 14:17  |  Lars Hansen 22/06/07
  50.   Good one Burnstein 14:29  |  tooshav chozer 22/06/07
  51.   Zionism without Judaism 14:31  |  observer 22/06/07
  52.   eric #27: very nice! 2nd try. 14:33  |  S 22/06/07
  53.   Messianic Jew: A God that is weeping is not worth 14:39  |  KA 22/06/07
  54.   To Parade or Not To Parade 14:39  |  Keith 22/06/07
  55.   No.2 $13 million 14:53  |  Mitch Cohen 22/06/07
  56.   You`re doing well, Bradley, but don`t get too self complacent 14:57  |  Ben Alofs 22/06/07
  57.   Bradley, agree up to... 15:08  |  Buzaglow 22/06/07
  58.   # 22 If You Aren`t Proud of Gays, You Aren`t Proud of Israel??? 15:14  |  Tony Anthony 22/06/07
  59.   true democracy... 15:15  |  Tess 22/06/07
  60.   To #38: KARMA 15:16  |  Keith 22/06/07
  61.   To KA no.43 15:19  |  Dean Kornberg 22/06/07
  62.   BRADLEY IS IT WORTH ATALKBACK ? 15:19  |  paul harris 22/06/07
  63.   No Judaism, so why are you there then??? 15:24  |  Aisha al`bakri 22/06/07
  64.   Efox in Socorro 15:29  |  Chaval 22/06/07
  65.   Burston`s elation 15:32  |  Esther 22/06/07
  66.   To Lars in Denmark no.49 15:37  |  Michael Ohana 22/06/07
  67.   Paul HARRIS and conspiracy theories 15:40  |  Josh Goldman 22/06/07
  68.   The "Moral" Left? 16:00  |  JewishHeart 22/06/07
  69.   Embarrassed about Israel 16:04  |  Baruch 22/06/07
  70.   YOU ARE PROUDLY DESTROYING ISRAEL ! 16:05  |  Atilla Liman 22/06/07
  71.   Seven top reasons why the ultra-orthodox should be proud of gays 16:05  |  Tosefta 22/06/07
  72.   # 47 You Make An Excellent Point 16:08  |  Tony Anthony 22/06/07
  73.   I AM OFFENDED AT THE NEGATIVE REFERANCE TO RABBI MEIR KAHANE 16:08  |  Meir Weinstein 22/06/07
  74.   bradley you are a reason to be proud of israel 16:09  |  miriam 22/06/07
  75.   The Holy City Defiled 16:09  |  August Rosado 22/06/07
  76.   Where`s Freud When You Need Him 16:27  |  Keith 22/06/07
  77.   Gay to the Core #44 16:27  |  FOX 22/06/07
  78.   The Klan marching in Harlem 16:33  |  peter 22/06/07
  79.   To my namesake: on being Left and having sympathy for Hamas 16:38  |  Ben Alofs 22/06/07
  80.   I have always figured 16:44  |  Mark Lincoln 22/06/07
  81.   12 points from the norwegian jury 17:39  |  Paul 22/06/07
  82.   Anywhere BUT Jerusalem!/Shame of Bradly/Shame on Israel 18:16  |  I.A. 22/06/07
  83.   Shame on you Burston 18:27  |  Choni Davidowitz 22/06/07
  84.   State of Israel-The new golden calf. 18:34  |  I.A. 22/06/07
  85.   `66 Michael Ohana 18:35  |  Labhras 22/06/07
  86.   Dear Bradley.A very good article BUT! 18:36  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  87.   #61 Dean; "remove non-Jews from the land" 18:36  |  ballistic 22/06/07
  88.   PERFECT EXAMPLE OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE 18:38  |  BILL HANDEL 22/06/07
  89.   To Meir Weinstein--Meir Kahane was a nutjob 18:43  |  I.A. 22/06/07
  90.   It so wonderful for Israel to allow this parade to take place 18:48  |  Tarek 22/06/07
  91.   # 70 Atilla Karagozoglu.FOR YOUR INFORMATION... 18:49  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  92.   # 70 Atilla Karagozoglu. FOR YOUR INFORMATION.. 19:00  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  93.   Someone please explain... 19:04  |  Chaval 22/06/07
  94.   a great week for israeli democracy 19:24  |  alan 22/06/07
  95.   Nothing To Be Proud Of... 19:26  |  Avi 22/06/07
  96.   There Are As Many Gays In Muslim Countries 19:28  |  Seth 22/06/07
  97.   Hooray for Itamar Ben-Gvir! 19:29  |  Fred Michaelsberg 22/06/07
  98.   # 71 Tosefta.Seven top reasons why the ultra-orthodox should be 19:41  |  KATH` 22/06/07
  99.   I A AND RABBI KAHANA 19:42  |  Miriam - Ashkelon 22/06/07
  100.   Chaval 19:45  |  Mary 22/06/07
  101.   # 53 KA(is that Khalid?but which one I wonder). WHY BRING IN.. 19:56  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  102.   # 51 observer.Zionism without Judaism.PERHAPS EH? 20:02  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  103.   Humor rules apply (Kathy #98) 20:08  |  Tosefta 22/06/07
  104.   HEAR O`ISRAEL YOU HAVE SINNED GREAT SINS BEFORE THE EYES OF GOD 20:10  |  Muhammud al-Swain 22/06/07
  105.   Kath #98 - on miscreants and procreants 20:11  |  dana 22/06/07
  106.   To Miriam 20:12  |  I.A. 22/06/07
  107.   THERE HERE THERE QUEER 20:27  |  JOSEPH 22/06/07
  108.   AMEN!!! 20:30  |  Bertin Lefkovic 22/06/07
  109.   # 103 Tosefta. I WAS GOING TO ADD MORE,BUT! 21:05  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  110.   Please read #46 21:54  |  peppone 22/06/07
  111.   # 104 Muhamoud al-Swain. I AGREE ENTIRELY.AFTER ALL. 21:59  |  Kath` 22/06/07
  112.   # 111 Muhammud al-Swain.CORRECTION HAARETZ.. 22:20  |  KATH` 22/06/07
  113.   #71, Tosefta 22:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 22/06/07
  114.   #104 Muhammad 23:21  |  ballistic 22/06/07
  115.   #96 Say Seth; I don`t doubt your claim, however 23:22  |  ballistic 22/06/07
  116.   "Here and Queer" in Israel 23:24  |  Raven 22/06/07
  117.   Conscript the Yeshiva Students 23:26  |  Yoram 22/06/07
  118.   Dana as Pansy Parkinson, Tossi is Malfoy 23:27  |  FOX 22/06/07
  119.   I breathed a sigh of relief 23:30  |  Yonatan 22/06/07
  120.   #116, FOX, wonderful post 00:33  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/06/07
  121.   #116 Rabid Fox on the loose 00:41  |  Tosefta 23/06/07
  122.   I love how.... 00:44  |  Pssd Off American 23/06/07
  123.   #117 Yonatan - why has this march caused such outrage? 01:07  |  Don Camillo 23/06/07
  124.   # 117 Yonatan Kefar -Sava. So,you breathed asigh of relief What? 01:28  |  KATH` 23/06/07
  125.   They all agree - HELP 02:09  |  Bolshoi ballet 23/06/07
  126.   Wonderful writing 02:40  |  Batya 23/06/07
  127.   raven 114 02:47  |  alan 23/06/07
  128.   # 119 Tosefta.re;FOX Oh dear You Allways revert .. 02:48  |  Kath` 23/06/07
  129.   FOX #116, Cipora #118 - Denounciation of the Innocents 03:39  |  dana 23/06/07
  130.   Earthly humor (Bird from Outerspace #113) 05:01  |  Tosefta 23/06/07
  131.   eric the gallant - calling on a knight errant 05:07  |  dana 23/06/07
  132.   Surprise, Dana #129 05:17  |  Tosefta 23/06/07
  133.   Can we get past this Here-Queer thing already. 06:53  |  ????? 23/06/07
  134.   Tosefta, suggested remaining 3 to listings of your top 10 07:35  |  Smadar 23/06/07
  135.   To 106 I.A. 08:35  |  Smart Alec 23/06/07
  136.   re: Chaval 08:47  |  Efox 23/06/07
  137.   # 39 no influences, fox 10:22  |  eric 23/06/07
  138.   An unusual gay point of view 11:26  |  Mark Halperin 23/06/07
  139.   Gay Pride Parade and Reaction 11:57  |  Eve 23/06/07
  140.   She? 12:47  |  r2d2 23/06/07
  141.   Cipora #113 13:02  |  S 23/06/07
  142.   Tosefta #71, #134 - operation "missing three" 13:14  |  dana 23/06/07
  143.   eric #137 - nothing like a parade to run into 13:34  |  dana 23/06/07
  144.   Good Speech! 14:05  |  Sinalco 23/06/07
  145.   Hey eric #137 Wise council 14:49  |  FOX 23/06/07
  146.   to the wannabees #73S seperated by only 10 postings 15:02  |  Ari ben Yisrael 23/06/07
  147.   #79 Ben Alofs 15:04  |  Ky 23/06/07
  148.   let`s be frank about freedom 15:25  |  stork 23/06/07
  149.   Missing the concept (Smadar #134) 15:47  |  Tosefta 23/06/07
  150.   Mary # 100 16:01  |  Chaval 23/06/07
  151.   Homosexual closet is not Pandora`s box 16:02  |  Avrum 23/06/07
  152.   on Queers and Jews 16:17  |  Alon 23/06/07
  153.   Efox 16:22  |  Chaval 23/06/07
  154.   Top Ten reasons why the Ultra-Orthodox should be thankful to gays 16:33  |  Tosefta (with Dana) 23/06/07
  155.   Thanks, Dana #142 16:52  |  Tosefta 23/06/07
  156.   #149 Tosefta, last line of your post is hysterical! LOL 17:01  |  Smadar 23/06/07
  157.   TO SMART ALEC-KAHANE WEBSITE 18:18  |  I.A. 23/06/07
  158.   #155, Tosefta and dana duo 19:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/06/07
  159.   # 158 Cipora Julianna Kohn. Tosefta and dana duo.. 19:54  |  Kath` 23/06/07
  160.   Two reasons why Tosefta and Dana 19:59  |  FOX 23/06/07
  161.   Haaretz.Who is at the helm up there? 20:19  |  fed-up 23/06/07
  162.   Cipora #113 20:26  |  S 23/06/07
  163.   On duos (Cipora #158) 20:27  |  Tosefta 23/06/07
  164.   # 154 dana.(this is for your response to me) 21:43  |  Kath` 23/06/07
  165.   The Abominable Slowman 23:05  |  Bradley Burston 23/06/07
  166.   #118: FOX, you are this week`s winner!!! 23:13  |  Thomas Jackson 23/06/07
  167.   Tosefta you forgot the big one 23:13  |  Mark Lincoln 23/06/07
  168.   Now now Yoram 23:16  |  Mark Lincoln 23/06/07
  169.   # 163 My,My Tosefta.What have you become?? 23:17  |  Kath` 23/06/07
  170.   # 163 My,My Tosefta... 23:20  |  Kath` 23/06/07
  171.   #45 IS SO TRUE, SOCIAL COERCION WON, NOT DEMOCRACY 23:31  |  BUNCHA KOOKS 23/06/07
  172.   #118, 160: What`s with FOX today? 23:40  |  Thomas Jackson 23/06/07
  173.   re: Chaval 23:47  |  Efox 23/06/07
  174.   Why not Censor Eric? 23:52  |  Efox 23/06/07
  175.   # 152 Alon. Queers and Jews.......... 23:55  |  Kath` 23/06/07
  176.   #131: To dana, re "calling on a knight errant" 00:04  |  Thomas Jackson 24/06/07
  177.   #118 to fox and cipora...and the lady dana 00:47  |  eric 24/06/07
  178.   No big deal 00:56  |  Bill 24/06/07
  179.   Don Camillo - you are a racist 00:57  |  Bill 24/06/07
  180.   # 131 fret thee not dana 01:13  |  eric 24/06/07
  181.   # 171 BUNCHA KOOKS. COERCION WON... 01:22  |  Kath` 24/06/07
  182.   Tosefta #154, 155 - Looking good 02:55  |  dana 24/06/07
  183.   # 143 no dana; not a flyer; nope not i 03:08  |  eric 24/06/07
  184.   re: Kath #175 on Queers and Jews 03:30  |  Alon 24/06/07
  185.   dana 05:48  |  Danite 24/06/07
  186.   Tosefta and dana 05:51  |  Danite 24/06/07
  187.   dana 05:53  |  Danite 24/06/07
  188.   eric 06:12  |  Danite 24/06/07
  189.   You should mention this 06:58  |  Daniel Burstyn 24/06/07
  190.   # 188 ahhhhh...but danite 07:12  |  eric 24/06/07
  191.   eric #177, 180, 183 - Passing through in a rush 08:01  |  dana 24/06/07
  192.   I`m crying for Jesusalem 08:26  |  nicole 24/06/07
  193.   Cipora #113 (the try no 3or 4? yesterday? before?) 08:35  |  S 24/06/07
  194.   Thank you Thomas Jackson part I 08:40  |  FOX 24/06/07
  195.   # 52 thank you to S 08:50  |  eric 24/06/07
  196.   G-D Is Proud 08:51  |  David 24/06/07
  197.   To eric 09:02  |  FOX 24/06/07
  198.   # 174 but efox!; how can you say this? 09:33  |  eric 24/06/07
  199.   There is no such thing as gay palestinians!! 09:50  |  Shlomo 24/06/07
  200.   eric #195 10:06  |  S 24/06/07
  201.   Haaretz, where are my 2 posts to S? 10:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 24/06/07
  202.   Why the gay parade is important. Re: #1 10:33  |  Avinoam 24/06/07
  203.   all right, now i am really angry 10:42  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 24/06/07
  204.   # 197 to fox 10:43  |  eric 24/06/07
  205.   # 200 to S 11:07  |  eric 24/06/07
  206.   Kath #164 - 11:16  |  dana 24/06/07
  207.   Thomas Jackson to the rescue 11:37  |  dana 24/06/07
  208.   # 204 eric..From last night:READ AND ENJOY;; 15:36  |  Kath` 24/06/07
  209.   # 177 eric. To Fox,Cipora,and lady dana..Worry not... 15:49  |  KATH` 24/06/07
  210.   # 179 Bill.NOT A DON,BUT A DON CLICKFOOL.. 16:04  |  KATH` 24/06/07
  211.   # 180 eric #130 FRET THEE NOT DANA.(READ ON ERIC.).. 16:12  |  Kath` 24/06/07
  212.   # 206 dana..My Reply to You .... 16:47  |  KATH` 24/06/07
  213.   # 206 dana. A Reply to yours.(THIRD TIME HAARETZ) .. 16:56  |  Kath` 24/06/07
  214.   eric #204 - 2nd TRY 17:14  |  dana 24/06/07
  215.   Burston is definitely queer in his views 18:24  |  Samuel 24/06/07
  216.   Why the Land will vomit you out 19:08  |  Jon 24/06/07
  217.   WONDERFUL ARTICLE 19:38  |  Liora 24/06/07
  218.   Good side effects too (Dana #182) 22:28  |  Tosefta 24/06/07
  219.   How funny that it is the ultra right that complains. 01:35  |  Yokohama 25/06/07
  220.   in response to # 208 & # 211 to the lady kath` 01:53  |  eric 25/06/07
  221.   Dana RE: FOX 118 03:47  |  American in NY 25/06/07
  222.   Dana & Tosefta 04:06  |  American in NY 25/06/07
  223.   Proud? 04:47  |  Deborah 25/06/07
  224.   re: eric 06:37  |  Efox 25/06/07
  225.   Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse (4th) 07:47  |  Paqid 16 Netzarim 25/06/07
  226.   # 208 & # 211 to the lady kath` pt2 08:11  |  eric 25/06/07
  227.   #207: Dana, from the Penultimate Insider and Honorary Jew 09:08  |  Thomas Jackson 25/06/07
  228.   # 224 you`re so right efox 09:12  |  eric 25/06/07
  229.   Time-CNN Case Study: Conservative City To Homo Capital (5th) 09:41  |  Paqid 16 Netzarim 25/06/07
  230.   Homosexual-Pedophilia-Pederasty Connections Shown (5th) 09:42  |  Paqid 16 Netzarim 25/06/07
  231.   Kol hakvod! 18:23  |  Stephanie 25/06/07
  232.   About to explode!!!!!! 18:56  |  Webster 25/06/07
  233.   #228 - Eric 22:38  |  Deborah 25/06/07
  234.   Be proud of Israel 22:46  |  Jake 25/06/07
  235.   #228- Eric 22:58  |  Deborah 25/06/07
  236.   Amen, Deborah, #235 00:46  |  Baruch 26/06/07
  237.   Dana 02:13  |  American in NY 26/06/07
  238.   #`s 233 & 235 to deborah 08:54  |  eric 26/06/07
  239.   #238 eric 09:26  |  Thomas Jackson 26/06/07
  240.   thomas jackson 10:39  |  eric 26/06/07
  241.   eric #238 10:42  |  S 26/06/07
  242.   #238- Eric #1 15:12  |  Deborah 26/06/07
  243.   #238 - Eric #2 16:08  |  Deborah 26/06/07
  244.   #238, Eric 16:11  |  Baruch 26/06/07
  245.   #236 - Baruch 16:15  |  Deborah 26/06/07
  246.   Beautiful article. Thank you. 17:44  |  Sarah 26/06/07
  247.   Gay Jews are as holy as other Jews. Jerusalem is the home of all. 18:37  |  Hal 26/06/07
  248.   # 243 to deborah 19:26  |  eric 26/06/07
  249.   # 244 baruch 20:03  |  eric 26/06/07
  250.   #248 - Eric 20:03  |  Deborah 26/06/07
  251.   # 241 hello S 2nd try 20:10  |  eric 26/06/07
  252.   #249, Eric 20:44  |  Baruch 26/06/07
  253.   dana 01:58  |  Thomas Jackson 27/06/07
  254.   Deborah and Baruch 12:24  |  dana 27/06/07
  255.   # 252 and you say my arguments are are "typical"... 12:35  |  eric 27/06/07
  256.   American in NY #237 14:45  |  dana 27/06/07
  257.   Thomas Jackson #253, 227 - here Today, gone Tomorrow? 15:15  |  dana 27/06/07
  258.   #254 - Dana 15:48  |  Deborah 27/06/07
  259.   Gay Jews are as holy as other Jews. 23:53  |  Jon 27/06/07
  260.   FOX 04:25  |  American in NY 28/06/07
  261.   re: eric, second try to bypass censors 06:07  |  Efox 28/06/07
  262.   re: Hal 06:26  |  Efox 28/06/07
  263.   re: I.A. on Kahane 06:31  |  Efox 28/06/07
  264.   eric - post #258 re to #254 10:27  |  dana 28/06/07
  265.   Proud of Israel 21:36  |  Jay Turner 28/06/07
  266.   First really good quote from Bradley 21:38  |  Mira 28/06/07
  267.   Actually I have one thing to add 21:46  |  Mira 28/06/07
  268.   alternatively... 23:58  |  christoph 28/06/07
  269.   dana 00:28  |  Leftfoot Combo 29/06/07
  270.   03:05  |  yehuda 29/06/07
  271.   Jesus, Burston, do you ever stop? 03:40  |  Jake 30/06/07
  272.   # 254 yuppem lady dana 3rd try 08:54  |  eric 30/06/07
  273.   Amaerican in NY, goulash or gulag 09:59  |  FOX 30/06/07
  274.   #203, Ms Kohn 16:57  |  Hannah 30/06/07
  275.   eric #272, stick to poetry mate 18:32  |  FOX 30/06/07
  276.   # 275 tsk tsk, fox 21:37  |  eric 30/06/07
  277.   Why Proud? Why Israel? Why? 20:51  |  Simon 09/07/07
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