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Religion is just fucking awful:

Almost half the Israeli population considers homosexuals to be deviants, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday, five days after an attack at a Tel Aviv gay centre killed two people.

This, from a people who should know what "deviant" implies.

Target The Rainbow Yarmulkes

Americans like to think of Israel as progressive--and it is compared to its neighbors--but that doesn't mean much. Take this news of the upcoming gay pride parade in Jerusalem. You have to love this triumph of religious fervor, the suggestions/threats by far-right Jews that they may respond by:

blocking the streets to haredi neighborhoods and physically striking out at gay businesses and venues that are open on the Sabbath

Cute. Isn't it strange how gay Jews marching in a parade is tolerated more in Birmingham, AL than in Jerusalem? Sure, there are protesters, but they don't throw feces or destroy businesses.

Why is "God's Holy Land" such a shit-hole? Jesus Christ...

This might help explain the clusterf**k we saw at the border

Lebanon war probe accuses Olmert of 'serious failure,' blasts Halutz, Peretz

'The partial report by a government-appointed committee probing the Second Lebanon War on Monday accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of "severe failure" in exercising judgment, responsibility and caution during the outset of the war.

The report, officially released at a 5 P.M. press conference in Jerusalem on Monday, says Olmert acted hastily in leading the country to war last July 12, without having a comprehensive plan.

The prime minister, the report said, "bears supreme and comprehensive responsibility for the decisions of 'his' government and the operations of the army."'

Read it all at haaretz.com.