Love in Time of War - I hope I get a chance to see the short feature film Yossi & Jagger sometime. It's about a wartime gay romance between two officers in the Israeli army (who happen to be pretty cute, in my opinion). I hear it's an interesting perspective on social pressures that come to bear on the men despite Israel's liberal attitude about gays in the military. Even though the film avoids making any political statements about the Palestinian question, that hasn't stopped your typical gay leftist outrage at anything Israeli.

Haven't we covered this before? I thought the meme had sunk in by now that if you're gay, you should have a damn hard time supporting Yasser Arafat and his jihadi henchmen. You're missing out if you haven't yet read the stories about the intolerable treatment gay Arabs receive from Palestinian government and society -- so bad that many youth risk it all to seek relative safety living on the lam in the land of their "enemies," the Israelis. Not that the Palestinians are much worse than other Arab countries when it comes to mistreating gays.