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2008-02-20 /S/D/ Israeli MP blames quakes on gays “An Israeli MP has blamed parliament's tolerance of gays for earthquakes that have rocked the Holy Land recently. .. Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy". .. Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights.“ Who takes these things seriously? Apparently for some people, we might as well still be living in the middle ages.
2007-12-08 /S/D/ How They Stole The Bomb From Us by Uri Avnery: “Until this week, we have been regularly hearing that - any minute now - the Iranians will produce a bomb that threatens our very existence. Nothing less. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler of the Middle East, who announces every second day that Israel must disappear from the map, was about to fulfill his own prophecy. ... And lo and behold - no bomb and no any-minute-now. The wicked Ahmadinejad can threaten us as much as he wants - he just has not got the means to harm us. Isn't that a reason for celebration? ... So why does this feel like a national disaster?”

2007-07-12 Kucinich Iran stance outrages Ohio Jewish leaders: "Dennis Kucinich, the colorful Cleveland congressman and longshot presidential candidate, has outraged Jewish leaders in Northeast Ohio by insisting that Iran's anti-Zionist leader is not seeking to exterminate Israel."