I’m not even gonna peek at the comments…
The barest facts are not in dispute: A masked individual entered the youth center the night of August 1, 2009 and started shooting, killing two (a 26-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl), injuring 11 others, then escaping into the night.
The reaction offers a glimpse into the Tel Aviv psyche. Whereas the average foreign observer, Jew or gentile, might automatically guess that the killer was yet another Muslim terrorist, Tel Aviv’s intelligentsia immediately pointed the finger at the Jewish religious right.
(Sound familiar?)
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By the way, I read a fantastic article while researching this piece, at Haaretz of all places, called “The Lie at the Heart of the LGBT Community.”
Highly recommended.
