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[–]CircumsteinRabbi Circumstein 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Indeed, over a quarter of males in Tel Aviv are alphabet (according to Tel Aviv's own officials as interpreted by journalists, see, https://web.archive.org/web/20160323133044/https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2016/03/17/welcome-tel-aviv-gayest-city-earth/y9V15VazXhtSjXVSo9gT9K/story.html)

I quote from this article:

"Tel Aviv is, for lack of a better description, super gay. It could even be characterized as post-gay. Most urban centers have a concentrated epicenter affectionately called a gayborhood or a gay ghetto. Tel Aviv doesn’t need to bother with such a dated concept.

“Everything in Tel Aviv is gay, inherently gay,” said Leon Avigad, who owns two very chic boutique hotels with his partner Nitzan Perry. “The people are creative, open-minded, liberal, accepting, and daring. Tel Aviv is very open to new forms of art, new musical styles, everything is very accepting.”

The estimate by officials in Tel Aviv is 25 percent of its population is gay.

Women interviewed in Tel Aviv are literally claiming they have to go to other cities to find straight men.

I heard laments from the women I chatted up that it’s impossible to find a single, heterosexual male in Tel Aviv in June.

I used to think Rio was ultra-queer, with something around 13% alphabet population... then Tel Aviv comes along and makes Rio look as straight as an arrow. There is something amusing about the world's fag capital being right in the middle of... Israel. The 'Holy Land' inhabited by 'God's Chosen'.

A more plausible explanation may be that Tel Aviv is the most gay friendly city in the Middle East. It’s a welcoming destination for residents of less hospitable territories. The government funds the massive Pride celebration, along with the Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center. The center hosts a gay parents support group, a queer cinema workshop, painting lessons, a kindergarten, a medical clinic, performance space, and nearly any other service you can imagine.

The day I met with Avihu Mizan, the center’s cultural events coordinator, I tripped over children’s shoes that littered the halls as he apologized for the screaming horde of kids playing on the second floor. They were at the center for afterschool programs. Gay life in Tel Aviv isn’t all parties and skimpy bathing suits at Hilton Beach. There is a gayby boom happening here, and there are plenty in the LGBT community who have no interest in staying up until daylight.

The OP arrives at the exact reversal of reality. Israel is by far the most Left-wing state in the Middle East. Even Likudniks are 70-80% in favour of same-sex marriage according to voter data. Then again, given his emphasis on muh freedumb, he probably sees libertarianism as 'Right-wing' (in typical American fashion) and bases the rest of his reasoning on this faulty premise, i.e. to be 'Right-wing' is to die for the rights of gay Jews to have anal sex in Israel.

He's probably misusing the term 'cognitive dissonance' as well. Nobody here feels any sense of unease over a supposed contradiction regarding Israel and Palestine because there simply isn't one.