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Saturday, 11 January 2014

Ariel Sharon: Epitaph On A Tyrant

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, 
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; 
He knew human folly like the back of his hand, 
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; 
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, 
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

W H Auden.

The gay media have wet their collective knickers as Tel Aviv has just unveiled a monument to gay men imprisoned by the Nazis - even though Israel only decriminalised gay sex in 1988.
So maybe a monument to Israeli gay men might have been more fitting.
Unless this is all part of a crude propaganda exercise, that is.
Another free expenses all-paid press trip to Israel's "gay party capital" anyone?

And he descended into hell...