{"id":198882,"date":"2007-10-02T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/02\/schadenfreude-palestinian-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T14:05:00","slug":"schadenfreude-palestinian-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/02\/schadenfreude-palestinian-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude: Palestinian Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1189411500215&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">mired in accusing each other of adultery and homosexuality<\/a>.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img209.imageshack.us\/img209\/3476\/piflbuttonpt9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that some of these accusations are true.  Heck, it&#8217;s likely that most of them are.  In any large organization, you will find gay people.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the DVD mentioned makes it more amusing.<\/p>\n<p>As to the Schadenfreude, it&#8217;s the sanctimony.  Somehow, convincing a retarded kid to wear a bomb belt is moral, but sleeping with another man isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding marital infidelity, this is not really about morality, it&#8217;s about religious hypocrisy, and the fact that the PA and Hamas are putting on their own little home grown versions of Tartuffe.<\/p>\n<p>I find this amusing for the same reason that I found Jim Bakker&#8217;s peccadillos amusing.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewlicious.com\/\">Jewlicious<\/a> for the catch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are are mired in accusing each other of adultery and homosexuality. I have no doubt that some of these accusations are true. Heck, it&#8217;s likely that most of them are. In any large organization, you will find gay people. Of course, the DVD mentioned makes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[986,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}