Gays and Lesbians, as well as religious minorities, are being persecuted by the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank just as they are being persecuted in other Arab and Muslim countries. Absurdly, it is Israel that is consistently being singled out for condemnations and boycotts by human-rights groups, academic associations, the Europeans, and the liberal media. World liberals and politically correct leftists have been outraged, and rightly so, by Russian anti-gay laws and social maltreatment in that country but seem to be silent and without outrage regarding the existence of such laws and attitudes in the Palestinians territories. Even though Israel is the only oasis for gays and lesbians and  religious minorities in the intolerant Middle East, it is the nation being portrayed as a "racist apartheid" state for building Jewish settlements including schools, kindergartens, and synagogues in the hills of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank, the cradle of Jewish history....(Read Full Article)