Over 250,000 people celebrate Gay Pride at Tel Aviv parade

[sabra]

Source: WP/AP

TEL AVIV, Israel — Ripped men in white underwear, pink bunny ears and black bow ties gyrated through the streets of Israel’s Tel Aviv on Friday along with drag queens and others to loud trance music for the annual Gay Pride Parade — the biggest event of its kind in the region.

The Tel Aviv Municipality said over 250,000 people celebrated at the city’s 20th Gay Pride Parade, an event that draws people from around the world to party.

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Israel has emerged as one of the world’s most gay-friendly travel destinations in recent years, in sharp contrast to the rest of the Middle East where gay culture is often not tolerated or even persecuted.

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Sahreef Awad, an Arab participant from Israel, said “There’s no difference between anyone, it’s just like, you know, culture, color, nationality, it doesn’t matter, come one, it’s like, we are all people, that’s what matters, love is love, so love wins, yeah!”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/bunny-ears-bow-ties-at-annual-gay-pride-parade-in-tel-aviv/2018/06/08/681d3972-6b0b-11e8-a335-c4503d041eaf_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.04f9941dda47

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Devil Child]

2. This could only happen in Israel

No where else in the Middle East would this be tolerated.

[sandensea]

3. Which makes it all the more disappointing that they'd resort to this:

That (U.S.-supplied) depleted uranium ordnance being dropped in one of the world's poorest, and most densely-populated, cities.

[Devil Child]

4. Cause and effect

Once Hamas stops lobbing rockets, digging tunnels, and engaging in terrorism towards Israel and Israeli citizens they will stop getting bombed in retaliation.

Too bad Gazans who are homosexual cannot live openly and freely without being lynched or persecuted by the government their peers elected.

[oberliner]

6. That's not what is happening in that photo

You have the wrong countries.

[11cents]

7. I don't think it's a photo at all.

It goes back years, and has been identified as an enhancement of a computer-generated image. I believe this is the original -- a drawing of a HYPOTHETICAL strike on Iran:

http://theaviationist.com/2012/03/08/israeli-f-15s-strike/

Al-Manar (Hezbollah's "news" organization) continues to claim it's Israel bombing Gaza. Others have claimed it's Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen. De gustibus.

[oberliner]

8. Well, it's definitely not Gaza

The image shows the Tehran Tower in the background.

[sandensea]

9. There's plenty where that came from. We've sanctioned, even invaded, regimes for MUCH less.

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS659US659&biw=1328&bih=887&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=U9saW_SqDKaJ0wLroJ2QBg&q=israel+bombing+gaza&oq=israel+bombing+gaza&gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.126121.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.img..0.0.0....0._VgwQ3xdriw

This one's from the Wall Street Journal - hardly an advocate for Palestinian rights or world peace (or anything positive, really):

[oberliner]

10. Now that looks like Gaza

The other photo is obviously a fake and you should delete it.

This one looks to be from Gaza, 2014.

I believe that photo was taken a few days after a Hamas mortar attack killed a four-year-old Israeli boy.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Gay pride worldwide!

[trickyguy]

11. I have to say it's upsetting that some of you feel the need

to post pictures of cities being bombed and then get into a discussion about which is which.
This post is supposed to celebrate Gay Pride in Tel Aviv. And congratulations to all the participants
for showing the world your bravery in spite of all the hostile attitudes in countries around you.

My best wishes to ALL. Love is love.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. If it's Israel, attacks are inevitable on DU

Whatever the subject of the post.