Monday, November 03, 2003
Big News!
Mehammed Mack is a dolt! Well, okay, I may have mentioned that before. But it's Monday, so hi ho.
It sucks being a gay Palestinian in Israel.
Didja' see that? Eight words! It makes you wonder how Mack took so many hundred to say the same thing.
Now, we all know personal narrative stories are boring, but Mack one-ups us on boredom: He gives a narrative of someone else's story summarized from a movie. Wow. Way to bring in an individual perspective there.
One night, while watching a movie with his mother and best friend Hashim, he chanced onto his first gay experience: with the excuse of the cold, Mahmoud and friend nuzzled ever closer, and then kissed. Mom, who was already drowsy, went up to bed, and the boys got rid of their virginity.
Geez, he makes it seem like they just stumbled into it. Maybe Mack's counting oral sex, or maybe they had the requisite lube just laying around.
Neither suspected their homosexuality, yet felt confirmed in it after that night...
It's not a confirmation if you don't suspect it in the first place. It's a revelation. "Bob was not suspected of guilt, yet the investigation confirmed that he was guilty." Oh, yeah.
...police offered Hashim two options: give us the names of every gay Palestinian you know, or we’ll tell your family about you. The Israeli police employ this tactic because gay Palestinians make the best collaborators: pressured into a vulnerable secrecy, they can be forced to perform any bidding if one threatens to “out” them.
Because the Israeli police have nothing better to do than to find gay Palestinians. I dunno, maybe they do have a reason for wanting to find all the gay Palestinians. If so, someone please inform me. I don't generally buy the "just because they're evil" argument. You'd think, having huge control over him, they'd ask him something about terrorists or some such, or maybe hire him as a spy. But no, they just wanted to find gay Palestinians.
Also, this goes into the "foreign countries suck" file.
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