Here, there was a huge 'infection party' that I think started this whole outbreak, this whole wave. No one has the courage to say this because it's not politically correct, but the Pride Parade, the large frenzy there in Tel Aviv, was what started this outbreak

There are reports that the police were not allowing people with a Haredi appearance to pass in the direction of downtown Jerusalem last night, towards Ben Yehuda street.

The reason for blocking Haredim from going to Ben Yehuda was to keep them away from a rally against the violence and the stabbing that happened by a Haredi man at the LGBT parade the other day.

As if all haredi-looking people are threats for potential stabbings, because one was.

On the one hand it is a bit surreal to see Haredi websites (Ladaat, Kikar) supporting Haredim to go hang out on Ben Yehuda street, or even just being upset that the police were not allowing them to. I could probably imagine a few of my rebbeim from back in my yeshiva days that would give a sigh of relief to such reports and be happy the police are stopping the yeshiva boys and frum Jews from going there.

On the other hand, the police preventing all such people from going there is collective punishment, probably with no threat (at least there was none reported in the news).

This is similar to the barriers put up around Jerusalem in front of some bus stops and train stops to prevent car attacks. Instead of dealing with the terror, they put barriers up all around town. Instead of dealing with violent people, they'll just stop everybody looking a certain way from going there.

The police failed at their job. This Shlissel guy had been in jail for 10 years for doing the exact same thing 10 years ago at another LGBT parade. He got out 3 weeks ago. The police couldn't keep track of him, considering him a real potential threat? There is no reason he should have been allowed within a kilometer of this parade.

And to cover up their own failures, the police are taking it out on everybody else.

The police are failures in general. Between the sexual abuse accusations against much of the top echelon, and the accusations all over of undue violence by the police, and now such a failure like this, it is fair enough to say the police system in general is a big failure and needs to be revamped. They hardly provide any personal security to citizens around the country, and are mostly an authorized terror organization at this point.

Another example is a report that the police arrested someone in Kiryat Malachi. The cause? He wrote something on Facebook in support of Shlissel. They arrested him and sent him for psychiatric evaluation. source: Srugim

This fellow might be warped. He might have misplaced priorities. But saying something in support of Shlissel is not a reason for arrest. If the police of Israel are now also the thought police, if they decide what people can and cannot say, we are all in big trouble.

According to another report on Kikar, they arrested/detained a woman whose husband opposed the pride parade. They arrested the wife because they could not find the husband.

Is that a thing now? If a husband does something illegal, they can arrest his wife? According to the report the husband did not even do anything illegal, unless by now the police have declared it illegal to be opposed to a pride parade and express that verbally. The police are deciding on their own whim, which in my opinion is not reliable in any way based on the internal problems within the Israel Police, what people can and cannot say, what they can and cannot think, and who they feel like arresting.

Give Shlissel the electric chair. I don't really care. Put him away for life. Shlissel is not the story here. The real story is the police. The Minister of Internal Security, the man responsible for the police force, should be pressured to revamp the police system.

Picture Of The Day

In preparation for the upcoming Gay Pride Parade, Tel Aviv has repainted some cross-walks according to the color scheme of the parade..

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Who knew that there was just a Gay Pride Parade in the city of Eilat? Raise your hands if you knew it was about to happen.

The city of Eilat is thought of as an Israeli version of Las Vegas - what happens in Eilat stays in Eilat. It is thought of as being ultra-liberal in lifestyle (I don't think it is like that in its politics) - pretty much anything goes.

Today in the newspaper there was an article about the Gay Pride Parade that took place in Eilat on Friday. The article was on Page 19 of the newspaper. OK, no big deal - after all Eilat is a pretty boring seaside resort vacation city. No big deal - not very exciting news.

Yet, the Gay Pride Parade of Eilat was met with violence. A group of protestors, local residents of Eilat, went out to protest against the parade. It turned violent as the protestors began throwing stones and eggs. A couple paraders were injured and needed medical attention.

And still the article only hit about 150 words on Page 19 of Yisrael Ha'Yom. I did a quick search to see if I could find any article on Haaretz or Ynet websites - I could not find one at all on Haaretz and found one way down at the bottom of the news updates of Ynetnews. Granted, I only did a quick search - maybe a more thourough search would result in more scathing headlining articles, but even a quick search should bring up an article on the front page.

Why is it that when the religious, specifically Haredi, protest against the Gay Pride Parades, it makes page 1, it is discussed for days on end, threats of violence, assumptions of violence, etc. are all played up and the whole thing is made into a lot of noise. One time a couple of years ago a haredi man violently protested, stabbing a parader, and it was talked about in the news for days. The next year the news media went on discussing whether it would be repeated. To no end.

Yet here we had, on Friday, a Gay Pride Parade that was protested, with violence, by secular (traditional perhaps) residents. And you can hardly find a word about it in the media - and to find even a bit you have to look hard.

Makes you wonder what the media outrage was really about the other times....

"We need to deal with Homosexuals and Lesbians the way we deal with Bird Flu"

---MK Nissim Ze'ev (Shas)

This was during an attempt yesterday to pass a bill banning any future Gay Pride Parade from taking place in Jerusalem.

NB. The bill passed the preliminary reading. It still needs to pass further readings for it to become law.

Yes, you read the title correctly. But it was a mock wedding.

Somebody staged a mock wedding with a donkey to protest the Gay Pride Parade taking place in Jerusalem....
From the description of the video on YouTube:
This mock wedding was conducted to demonstrate the madness and insanity sanctioned by the Israeli courts by allowing the homosexual abomination parade in the holy city of Jerusalem.

I could not stop laughing... enjoy