Infanticide

Jag har ofta kritiserat Bildt, men nu har åtminstone hans kabinettsekreterare gjort något som jag applåderar:

The United States will strongly support a Swedish effort to have the UN Human Rights Council appoint a special investigator into rights violations in Iran, U.S. ambassador Eileen Donahoe said on Friday.
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Earlier this week, Swedish state secretary for foreign affairs Frank Belfrage told the five-year-old rights body his country was deeply concerned by “the worsening human rights situation in Iran.”

Eh, vad?

Co-sponsors of the resolution include the Maldives, an Indian ocean archipelago which is a member with Iran of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic States (OIC), and Zambia, part of the African group, Donahoe said.

Fast man kan undra hur effektivt det hela kommer bli?

Diplomats said it would still be hard to get an Iran resolution passed as most members of the NAM group and their Russian and Chinese supporters strongly oppose having UN special investigators looking into one country’s affairs.

 

Fem israeler i Itamar i Västbanken mördades nyligen av en knivman. Tre av offren var barn, 10 och 4 år, respektive 3 månader gamla.

Detta är inte första gången som våld har förekommit i Itamar och inte heller första gången som barn har dödats. 2002 dödades en kvinna och hennes tre barn, 16, 13 och 6 år gamla.

al-Aqsa-brigaderna tog på sig (det senaste) dådet och kallade det för en “heroisk operation” som…

was “part of the natural response to the massacres of the fascist [Israeli] occupation against our people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” said the leaflet.

Vilket är intressant då gruppen själva ger Israel grönt ljus att svara på våld med värre våld, för om dödande av barn är en “naturlig respons” på ockupation, ja vad är då den naturliga reaktionen på barnamord? Den onda cirkeln snurrar på. Lycka till till bägge länderna liksom.

 

Från becksvart tragik till komisk tragik: Rabbiner vill få bögar att gifta sig med lesbiska. Blir inte det DUUBELfel? Om en bög gifter sig med en heterokvinna finns ju åtminstone den potentiella chansen att hon ska vara attraherad av honom. En flata kommer ju garanterat INTE vara det. Men det är klart, är man religiös så är man:

His 12th couple has just announced their engagement, Harel said, and he has a list of another 30 gays and 20 lesbians seeking matches. They don’t deny their sexual identity, he stressed, but “they want to establish a home, whether for the sake of becoming parents or for the social recognition. A family isn’t just sex and love. It’s an instrumental partnership, though not just a technical one.”
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Gay-lesbian marriages have long been practiced among the ultra-Orthodox […]
Harel explained that while secular homosexuals see gay marriage as the solution, religious homosexuals are often unwilling to violate the halakhic prohibition on homosexual sex, and are thus seeking other solutions.
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“Most of the couples agree not to have relationships with members of their own sex, but if there are ‘lapses’ once every few years, they don’t see this as a betrayal,” he said. “Generally, it’s between them and their Creator.”
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Harel introduced them, and as the first of his gay-lesbian couples, they term themselves “guinea pigs.” They are careful to keep up normal appearances before the children and the outside world, even sleeping in the same room, though they don’t sleep together. Their children were born through artificial insemination.

“Most of the time, it’s good for us together, like business partners. Of course we have quarrels and tensions, but who doesn’t? … Like good friends, we have a great deal of mutual respect and a great deal of platonic love.”

It isn’t like that for everyone, of course. Two of the couples Harel married are now in the process of divorce. And he said he is very worried about whether the children of these experimental marriages will end up suffering.