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spec: Unlike the cush , tolerant musings of my friends ' baby-boomer parents , the wisdom my father dispenses is harsh and pragmatic . And we admire your efforts here , surrounded by nature that is harsh and hostile - - a natural setting that does not know rain or vegetation . The Buddha gave the similes of attempting to make oil out of sand , squeezing the horns of a cow for milk , churning water to make butter , and rubbing two pieces of wet green wood to make fire . But this particular round was put aside , even if the underlying fundamentals that drive the war are gaining intensity.Far from its original path through the heart of West Jerusalem , where it was to tread dangerously close to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods where opposition is strongest , the planned parade was instead retrenched after an 11th-hour compromise to a single , stationary rally at a fenced-in university soccer stadium.Far from the madding crowds , in a ghetto of its own making and flanked by as many as 3,000 Israeli police , the rainbow gathering was able to assert its right to be , without disturbing so much as a hair of the city whose majority did not want it.Several ultra-Orthodox rabbis , who as recently as Wednesday threatened to instigate a pulsa denura curse against the parade organizers -- that is Aramaic for '' lashes of fire `` and , loosely speaking , the Judaic equivalent to Islam 's fatwa -- saw victory in the change of plans and agreed to instruct their followers to stand down.Jerusalem Open House , the gay and lesbian rights group that had already postponed its parade once after last summer 's eruption of hostilities with Lebanon , again found itself with a face-saving out -- the soberingly high expectation of a violent Palestinian revenge attack in the wake of the tragic killing of 19 civilians in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday by an errant barrage of Israeli artillery shells.But to many who attended yesterday 's rally , the ferocity of the religious tide rising against them gave scant cause for celebration .