Supporting Israel -- NOT the Gay Thing to Do

To-day I was on facebook browsing when I received a notification from a cause I joined a while ago on the topic of supporting decriminalisation of homosexuality within the UN. Now, this isn't what I'll be blogging about, but let's start with some GOOD news, eh?
So, the notification is an announcement regarding the Obama Cabinet's decision to sign the UN gay rights declaration which the Bush Cabinet refused to sign. You can read the full article here.
So, that's the good news over the way.

Next, in the same group I came across a post in the forum entitled "Supporting Israel: It's the Gay Thing to DO."
Now, a while ago I posted a blog on the subject of the Arab-Israeli conflict regarding an Israeli attack upon the Palestinian people where hundreds of civilians (mainly women and children) were shot by Israeli snipers.
This blog, along with photos a Palestinian had taken of the attack can be found here.

Now back to this article, this article was basically an article posted upon a news website called Gay Wired. This article basically talks about how fantastic Israel is due to its treatment of the LGBT community and how fantastic it is that they're being proactive against Gaza and can be found here.

I'd just like to say that a lot of homosexual people think that as long as a country has gay rights, then it's all good. I believe that this is a very wrong way to think, it's a very unsafe way to judge a country. Sure Israel has gay rights, sure Israel's cities have gay pride parades, sure Israel has all this but does this justify the killing of civilians?

I know that the Hamas have launched terrorist attacks upon Israel but I also know that the Israeli government have sponsored the killing of Palestinian civilians.
I think there is a distance between a "terrorist group" fighting for their land and a developed country killing women and children.

Of course Palestinian members of the GLBT community face punishment for their sexual orientation, and I don't condone that what-so-ever, but like someone commented saying

My liberation is tied up with the liberation of any of the victims of oppression in the Middle East, whether they be queers under a murderously homophobic Islamic regime, or murderously homophobic Muslims under a murderously Zionist regime.

I have to say that I completely agree.
Of course it's unfair that homosexuals are treat terribly at the hands of Islamic nations, but isn't it also unfair that people are being persecuted for nothing at all at the hands of a developed nation? Aren't human rights there to protect all humans whether they're homosexual or straight, Muslim or Jew?
It makes me mad to see that "gay politics" seem more important to some people than basic human rights, human rights which have been denied to many Palestinians for more than forty years.

I realise that I know nothing about politics, but I do recognise unfair treatment and this is exactly what it is.

First poem in ages.

First poem of the year, too, but it's still a little rough around the edges, but okay. :P

Enjoy another slice of toast,
Whilst Palestine awakes, to yet another human roast,
Hum your favourite songs,
As Israel is committing, even more wrongs.

Is it just, that the Muslims are being killed by the thousand?
Was it just that the Jews were shipped of to Poland?
Build a wall around Gaza and blow them to bits!
Brick the Jew in the ghetto, next they'll be sent to Auschwitz!

Isn't it sad that a boy, just sixteen years of age,
Hears of the news, immediately feels nothing but rage?
The Jews returned to Zion, and want even more,
I've seen the evil, amidst all the gore.

It's all very well, dreaming of peace,
Our very own Government, has sided with a beast,
Speak out 'gainst Israel, you're anti-Semitic,
Don't side with the Muslims; don't be altruistic.

Really we're given, one of two choices, side with the enemy,
Or be part of the remedy,
Dr. Sam, nurse Britannia prescribe ethnic cleanse.
After all, these are Muslim, public enemy of our lens.

The fact is simple, the truth is pretty clear,
Their children are living, under Jewish sniper range,
Do realize it is Israel, not Palestine we should fear?


Pretty obviously, this poem is about Gaza and Israel's atrocities.
If you have a facebook account, please sign in and view these photos:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=95986&id=620736468&ref=nf

Not because they're gory, not for a voyeuristic purpose. But just to see, what the Jews are doing to Palestinians. To see that these are not soldiers, these are children, women, men, civilians.
I have met people from Palestine on facebook etc, and so easily could the people I've met be dead due to Israel.
The people in these photos are Muslim, but, they're also children, like your little brother, your little sister, your own child, your niece and nephew.
The women could be your elder sister, your mother.

This isn't just a war, this is what our governments call 'collateral damage'.
No one will stop the Jews, they've already taken most of the Palestinians' land, and still they want more.
The UK and the USA have sided with Israel, the allies provided the Israelis with the weaponry, machinery. And the UN supplied them with the coordinates for a school with Gazan refugees.
Egypt is siding with Palestine, rightly so, at least 1 country is doing what is right.

That's all I have to say.