How to make them?
Get out the Israeli big guns!
Noooo. Not those big guns. Keep those for Gaza.
Get out the women.
Nooooooo. Not these women. These you hide. You don't want to confuse the world and make Israelis look like Arabs!
Get out the "beautiful" women:
Yes. That's more like it:
"The Israeli Consulate in New York has come up with an ingenious idea to promote tourism to Israel in the United States: officials there have managed to twist the arms of the most popular US men's magazine, Maxim, to write a feature about stunning Israeli models."
Yes, the bikini-clad Israeli woman, an icon of Israeli nationalism, has been deployed once again as a weapon of mass national construction to give the state a face and butt lift, by convincing American men that Israel is "a modern, lively, young and dynamic
A video shoot is in the works. I assure you it's not going to look anything like this one or this one.
4 comments:
Hi Um kahlil,
I have no idea if the bikini deployment would work. But tit and ass arguments can be persuasive with some me. I wonder what Israeli feminists have to say about all this. Of course, support the troops is always a convenient posture to take.
I remember years ago, before suicide bombings, an American male co-worker going on about the cute young things working in Ben Gurion Airport (they weren't so cute if you had an Arabic last name and had to strip for them), and how he couldn't bear to think of them getting blown up . . . another one of the many Israeli PR fronts is soccer; young British Aliyahites fill the pages of the Guardian extolling British/Israeli friendship games . . . you name it; they've got it covered (many think hummus, falafel, even za'tar are "Israeli"; an Israeli designer has even made a skirt from a kuffiyeh) while it seems as if all Palestinian activists find time for is jammering on incessantly about US imperialism!
Wow. I wish I could say that I was really surprised. Thanks for the post.
Very smart!
Beauty always attracts!
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