Fairness in Gaza and Middle East from the Gay Community

                                                                           

                                                                    

The LGBT global community is a solid block for human and civil rights.   The majority of this community being that gay people are not single issue oriented, want peace and want the killing to stop in the middle east particularly Gaza.  Human and civil rights have been denied to us for so long is no surprise that this community will fight not just for its own survival but the survival of others that suffer oppression by governments and ill-informed nations that think that gays are just of people with a bad chosen style of living.

In the West we have waged a solid campaign of information and common sense to the public asking why it is all right or discriminate against a world community simply because you might disagree with them or simply not like them.

This type of campaign has paid big dividends around the world as more and more gay people come out tired of their lives in hiding having had to lie about who we are and who we love. We taught the world that we are everywhere. Wether our percentages are 2% of the national population or 20% these are big amounts of human beings making the case. 

Politicians and others in the government have found out that just like their doctor doing that brain surgery could be gay but some of their kids might also be gay.  It has turned out even for some rabid anti gay politicians including people in congress that one or more of the kids have come out which in turned is made almost an immediate change of heart of who gay people are. Its one thing to criticize the neighbors kid its another when your 17 year old son tells his parents “dad Im gay and this is the way I am. I have been like this and I can no more change the color of my skin that change who I am attracted to make a life with.”

The Israeli-Palestinian always an interesting case and a test of our sense of fairness. Most of us understand Israel’s security needs and knowing very clearly than in Israel you can come out gay and not be persecuted opposite in Gaza or Palestine where they would do a lot more to you than persecute you.

 Still we believe that it’s very unfair for a country to occupy another. Most of us believe that most of the problems Israel faces in the middle east have to do with their occupation. We hope that the day will come when  the Palestinian people can have their own state and live in peace side by side with Israel. But now we have a piece of land that Israel won during the last war and does not border the rest of the palestinians but Egypt on one side and Israel on the other.  This is Gaza.

 Gaza that has been infiltrated by the worse of Israel’s enemies, Hamas. This is land politicly connected to the Moslem Brotherhood. Yes, the same brotherhood who governed Egypt for less than two years where it tried to bulldozed all freedoms and all voices except the most extreme voices of the moslem and their sharia law. We know what they do to gays because they have said it and shown it. The gay community in Egypt who was an integral part in ousting Mubarak, Egypt’s President. Mubarak who has the blood of so many gays he hung just for being gay. The gay community there came out in force and some even died for the freedom to come out during Egypt's revolution. When the Moslem Brotherhood got the government the gays had to go back and hide. The brotherhood went after them worse than they did with the women who would not dress according to their law. This brotherhood is the same in Gaza and they have let in any fighter with guns and explosives to kill Israelis.

To make it worse and to bring the public opinion against Israel one of their techniques of Hamas is to bomb Israel from Hospitals, Schools and from where ever there is a concentration of innocent people. As Israel in their rush to get back at them and eliminate some of their weapons and fighters it ends up killing more civilians than fighters which are usually women and children.

This is a horrible situation for the gay community and for the defenseless women and children in Gaza. They have no power and no say in this conflict. At least in Israel you have a strong military defending the civilian population and a democratic government that can always be voted out of power by it’s citizens. The women and children of Gaza have no control. Kids being kids will be used by Hamas. Before they were taught that Israel was the big Satan with the Us and they died throwing stones at the Israeli soldiers. Now they died throwing bullets and sometimes explosives at the jews in Israel. 

There is no solution in sight with an ultra conservative government in Israel that wont give an inch and the extremists in Gaza that are willing to kill its own population just to prove a point. They are never going to win, they are never going to push Israel to the Mediterranean sea, so all these deaths are completely in vain. What ever gains anybody gets could have been obtained with talks.

What are we as a gay community ought to do? For one thing keep being fair to both sides. Israel most end the occupation and Gaza is got to get rid of its Iranian rockets and Hamas. We most be careful not to side with either one but with whom ever is being fair and just. At times neither side is but the blood ahead cannot last for ever just like the rockets cannot last for ever if Iran and others stop supping the area with weapons.

 I hope we don’t get mix up on other people’s criminal acts of killing, no matter who they are. The american people rose in disgust  when they saw what our government was doing in Viet-Nam and Cambodia in the 60’s at the expense of our youth. The war had to end. We have no control of what others do but we do have control of our fairness and impartiality.  We know that the Palestinian in Gaza feel for the gays as much love as they feel for the jews, Still the women and children there know no better and the taking of a human life is a serious thing no matter wether is done in Texas, Florida or Gaza or Israel.

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher