from the Palestinian authorities? I imagine they've been front and center in condemning it.

it is not the PA who parades itself as a beacon of light in the ME.

That would be the Israeli government...the most moral army in the world..among other things,
so they say.

should I start to worry?

Perfectly.

...Palestinian state run by corrupt dictators against every progressive value in existence.

btw, I support a genuinely democratic and liberal Palestinian state....

I know, I suck.

I missed you!! I know I'm off topic, but it was quite strange to not have you here. See you around, I'm getting a verbal/written beat down right now, elsewhere.

Nor is it engaged in a scheme to mail Eritreans and Sudanese asylum-seekers to Uganda.

So there's two things.

And every self respecting democracy should be sanctioning them and isolating them and no excuse is acceptable for not doing so... Shame on Israel .

The world should sanction Uganda , Russia, Iran, Gaza , Hamas , Palestine and PA for their despicable bigoted homophobic laws and behavior- Israel included.

records..who they support, when, why and to what degree. Some nations with truly
excellent records do not possess the political power to do much of anything.

What you are suggesting is blanket sanctions which is a mistake imo; are they viable sanctions
designed to influence a deeper obligation to uphold human rights, how will they impact an economy etc,
who will they hurt etc, and how long..generally not an easy fix..sanctions do not have a great
track record, in isolation. It is a frustrating process to advance human rights world wide.

And that African asylum-seekers in Israel should be deported there?

Occupy Palestine and Golan is reaching out to Occupy Crimea! They've both already got Occupy Tibet on their side. it's almost like a global movement!

about maintaining Israel's Gay friendly reputation

Shame on Israel .

And shame on Israel and the rest of the world for not shunning the bigoted states of Uganda Palestine Hamas Saudi Arabia Uganda Iran Russia --- they all should be punished for their Bigoted Regressive Primitave Backward behavior , laws , Bigotry, medieval ,stone age ,base revolting ,unacceptable ,discriminatory and inferior culturally-backward attitudes towards Gays.

With a backward culture wrt Gays and Gay rights, that are so culturally backward that discrimination and Jail and Murder/ Death are acceptable against their own Gay citizens .... And here we talking about Uganda , Palestine , Gaza , Iran , Saudi Arabia, Syria and unfortunately a few other places .... Should be shunned and isolated and punished.

the majority of states still have laws on the books against marriage equality, and Washington allows this to stand, would you have them cut off to and better yet how?

In Uganda and Palestine- Hamas to that in the USA,?? ( or even Arizona )

That is so insulting to Gay people that it doesn't deserve acknowledgement or reply.

instead you seem to be only able to make accusations, and Palestine is not Hamas, in fact in Palestine or the West Bank as it were being Gay has not been against the law since 1951 in accordance with Jordanian law

you're the one running making exclamations against states so I asked about the United States

btw how is pointing out that in the US Gay Rights are still quite lagging insulting to Gay people?

For just being Gay.

Gay rights in Palestine /West Bank is
non existant.

Despicable



As for Russia ? Oh you going to say The USA is as bad as the Russia too?

in the West Bank being Gay is not illegal to be Gay and male in Gaza is illegal unfortunately but Gaza is ruled by despicable forces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory#Middle_East

as for the US I said nothing of the US compare to Russia I merely pointed out an apparently uncomfortable fact or are you saying that as long as it's not as bad it's okay ????

Clearly

C ya

where the term "Gay Rights" is clearly an oxymoron .

clearly you did not read the link provided you though

but while we're on the subject doesn't it seem strange to you that Israel a country that 'knows' when some person in Gaza is about to launch a rocket before they do it can not apprehend the person that gunned down several people in a Gay nightclub almost 5 years ago and let their sole suspect go, but not until it had arrested the Gay states witness?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=740598

Not going down your tangent .

The topic is Israel and the World must not tolerate the Gay bigoted regressive culturally backward places such as Gaza Uganda Russia Hamas Iran etc .

And Israel has no excuse for tolerating Uganda and nor does the world .

End of discussion wrt to this Gay topic with you , it's insulting to me as a gay dude that anyone could think it's possible to draw a parallel with USA states - that just serves to minimize and cheapen the regressive bigoted regimes mentioned.


There is no insulting comparison with these Gay Bigoted regressive culturally backward regimes and shame on anyone making it. It's insulting beyond the pale to me as a Gay dude .

Bye bye

Some written by IP regulars.

Nuff said.

that is quite unrelated