追悼式 in ラビンスクエア
20,000 gather in Rabin Square over gay center shootingBy Noah Kosharek, Haaretz Correspondent : Last update - 02:16 09年08月09日土曜日の8日午後20時からラビンスクエア (テルアビブ市庁舎前広場) で先日起こったテルアビブ同性愛者コミニティーにおける銃乱射で2名の若者が死亡した。(09年08月02日:悲しい殺人事件:反同性愛 日参照)この追悼式が午後20時からあるのでラビンスクエアに行こうと思っていた。が、、、姉が先日荷物の中に同梱してくれた『大地の子』という本をはまって読んでいた、しかも凄く展開が面白く、夢中で読んでいたら・・・朝になっていた。単に姉が読んだことあるって送って来たのですけど、これがまたこの日本の終戦時期にピッタリの話題でもある本で、凄く内容が濃い!! 文庫本4冊。翌日大手のイスラエルのネット新聞社にこの追悼式典の記事が合った。ミーハーな私は、、ペレス大統領が式典に来ていたのを知って、ショックを受けた。「あ。ペレスさんを直に見ることが出来たのに・・・」Peres at gay support rally: Bullets hit us allAttila Somfalvi Latest Update: 09年08月08日, 21:38 / Ynet At rally honoring dead of gay community center participants wave GLBT flag, carry signs saying, 'Thou shall not kill'. Education, culture ministers speak as well as President Shimon Peres Peres: Every person has freedom to be who he isペレス氏:全ての人は彼自身である自由がある。追悼式になんて不謹慎なと。。。がしかし、国家の大統領ですからね。そうそう彼を写真に収めることはできないと思いますから。や、しかし、そんなに大きな追悼集会 (20,000人) となっていたとは、記事をみて更にビックリです。この国、イスラエルの人々は熱いですよ。このゲイコミニュティー殺人事件は実はイスラエルのモサッドまたはシンベトが仕組んだことでこの民主主義をますます世界にアピールするためであった。・・・だったらまたネットの話題としては最高でしょうよく、反イスラエルの人々は、イスラエルはわざとあえて同性愛者を肯定して世界に民主主義をアピールしているとか、だってね~、ネットって本当に勝手なのよ。でハマスにいるモサッドって。真相はわからないのでどうだっていいのですけどね。でも、こんな唇のだらしない男がモサッドだったらがっくり・・・。このような事件はもう二度と起こってほしくないです。ゲイが変人だったら、一般人の変人も私は会ってきていますよ。Haaretz survey: 46% of Israelis thinks gays are deviantsハアレツ社アンケート:46%のイスラエル人はゲイは異常者 (deviant) 50% of gay teens physically or sexually abused50%のイスラエル人10代のゲイは精神的、性的に罵られている。土曜日の熱いテルアビブの夜にクリックありがとうございました。20,000 gather in Rabin Square over gay center shootingTwenty thousand demonstrators or more gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square Saturday night in a rally to show solidarity with Israel's gay community, including the victims shot at a TA center for gay and lesbian youth a week ago, which left two dead and a dozen wounded. President Shimon Peres addressed the crowd, saying the shots fired at the gay and lesbian community "hurt all of us - as people, as Jews, as Israelis." Peres, who spoke against a background of a rainbow flag, mentioned the two Israelis killed in the attack, Nir Katz, 26 and Liz Trobishi, 17, saying "the person who pointed a pistol barrel at Nir Katz and Liz Trobishi pointed it all of you, all of us, at me." The president said: "The Creator of the world did not endow anyone with the power to murder his peer." Peres added that "every person must fight against murder." Chen Langer, who was wounded in the shooting at 28 Nachmani Street, spoke before the rally. He was released from hospital shortly before the event. "It has been a bad week for Israeli society," he said. Ori Gil, who was also wounded in the shooting, said that "no killer will leave us in the closet." Organizers said the rally drew 70,000 people, but police estimated the number at 15,000. Several musicians performed at the gathering, including Rita, Dana International, Ninette Tayeb, Amir Fay Guttman, Keren Peles, Corinne Alal and Ivri Lider. In Jerusalem, members of the homosexual community lit candles at Zion Square in a tribute to the Nachmani Street victims in a vigil organized by Gal Uchovsky, a gay filmmaker and TV personality. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai also spoke at the rally in his city, where he said that "we thought that in Tel Aviv-Yafo .... we had created an open and accepting society for our children." Hours before the rally, an Israel Defense Forces soldier was arrested on suspicion of threatening people who came to demonstrate. In custody, the soldier reportedly confessed to making the threats. Throughout Saturday, operators of transportation to the rally received telephone threats, including one caller who threatened to bring grenades to the demonstration. A similar threat was received by organizers of transportation from Haifa. Gal Zberger, who organized a Peace Now bus to take demonstrators from Haifa to Tel Aviv, said: "I got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize. He asked for details regarding the bus. I gave him the details and asked for his name. He said 'the one with the grenade.' I asked what he meant, and he said 'today you will get hit with grenades, not just guns.'" An activist from the Be'er Sheva, Shai Gottler, said that earlier in the day, he got an anonymous phone call asking him when the buses were leaving for the rally. Gottler told the caller that the buses were leaving at around 6 P.M., and asked if he wanted a ride. In response, the caller said, "I want to come to the pickup point to throw grenades at you." The police are investigating and hope to determine the source of the threatening calls. Ofri Ilani, Yanir Yagana and Fadi Eyadat contributed to this article.