News of the Weird reports one way to unite Jewish Israelis and Muslim Palestinians:
And, though general tensions between Arabs and Jews remain high inside Israel, prominent ultra-Orthodox Jews joined militant Palestinian Muslims in fierce opposition to the November gay-pride parade in Jerusalem, according to a Boston Globe dispatch. (Said activist Rabbi Yehuda Levin, "Only this onslaught of homosexual radicalism could bring together such disparate voices.") [Boston Globe, 11-9-06]
If that's so, I say, let's have more gay pride parades!
