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A better question: What is NOT wrong with this picture.
The Times of Israel headline reads: U.S. embassy raises flag in support of TLV pride week
The sub-hed adds that A rainbow flag indicating support for the LGBT community was raised over the US embassy in Tel Aviv for the first time Tuesday, according to US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro.
Has the LGBT set taken over the embassy? Have they taken over the country?
Being tolerant is one thing; appearing - even appearing - to cater to one small segment of a population is another altogether.
It is not "homophobia* to feel that heterosexuals are now second class citizens in their own country. It IS failing to be "politically correct" to object to a minority's political pennant flying alongside the Red, White, and Blue.
I would object if it was the Boy Scout pennant; ditto the NLB or NBA or even the NFL pennants. Let's fly the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida flag over the embassy; at least that's actually the national flag of a tribe of Indians that never surrendered to the federal government.
If the LGBT pennant can fly over the embassy in Tel Aviv, why not the Black Panther pennant? How about the Nation of Islam? Maybe the NOW pennant? Certainly these pennants represent minority groups.
The ONLY flag that should be flown at a U.S. embassy - in the non-capital of Tel Aviv or anywhere else - MIGHT be the host country; that would be "politically correct" as well as "socially" correct.
Given the the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue's politics, I suppose we should be glad it was the LGBT pennant and not the Palestinian Authority pennant; perhaps if the embassy were located - as it should be in Israel's capital - it probably would be raised over the embassy.
Pennants over Embassy?
Which brings us to another issue, albeit one that failed to make The Times of Israel headline.
Why, despite the U.S. Congress' insistence, have the president and his predecessors refused to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's capital: Jerusalem?
Is there a U.S. embassy in any other non-national capital?
Do these presidents - some allegedly "friends" of Israel - think Jordan is going to launch a war to recover what it lost in its last attack on the Jewish state?
Or, since the White House now is home to a Muslim, does anyone really believe Israel will surrender any of Jerusalem - other than the Temple mount, of course - to Islamists, "Palestinian Authority" or otherwise. Perhaps the White House is waiting for Rome to claim a historic Jewish site (David's tomb)?
* Homophobia
According to Merriam-Webster Online is defined as irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
and by Dictionary.com as: unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality.
