Comments on: Arab-Israeli Beauty Queen Breaks Taboo http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Asher B. Garber http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21243 Asher B. Garber Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:24:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21243 And you're a comedian, Charlie. Don't know the history. Don't know the issues. But you blame the Joos. Stay classy, Chuck. And you’re a comedian, Charlie. Don’t know the history. Don’t know the issues. But you blame the Joos.

Stay classy, Chuck.

]]> By: Charles M http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21212 Charles M Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:15:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21212 You are an idiot. You are an idiot.

]]> By: Rachel Haynes Miller http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21191 Rachel Haynes Miller Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21191 It's disheartening to me that the most powerful way to break taboos and gain international attention as a woman is something as superficial as posing in a bikini. What kind of freedom is this? I recently read the Lisa Bloom's article "How to Talk to Little Girls," and it addresses this very issue. If we must show our strength as women by being "technically speaking, drop-dead gorgeous," we have made little progress in gaining respect and equal footing with men.  Perhaps men have feared and stifled female sexuality for millennia, but I wish women would start fighting the greater fear--which may be held by both sexes--of female intelligence. A bikini is not an apt weapon.  It’s disheartening to me that the most powerful way to break taboos and gain international attention as a woman is something as superficial as posing in a bikini. What kind of freedom is this? I recently read the Lisa Bloom’s article “How to Talk to Little Girls,” and it addresses this very issue. If we must show our strength as women by being “technically speaking, drop-dead gorgeous,” we have made little progress in gaining respect and equal footing with men. 

Perhaps men have feared and stifled female sexuality for millennia, but I wish women would start fighting the greater fear–which may be held by both sexes–of female intelligence. A bikini is not an apt weapon. 

]]> By: Asher B. Garber http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21167 Asher B. Garber Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21167 Got a problem with reality? Trick question, really, when speaking to an Israel basher, who decides what is racism and what is resistance and why it's okay to blow up a pizzeria and why it's not okay to stop missiles from reaching a bunch of a terrorists. Got a problem with reality?

Trick question, really, when speaking to an Israel basher, who decides what is racism and what is resistance and why it’s okay to blow up a pizzeria and why it’s not okay to stop missiles from reaching a bunch of a terrorists.

]]> By: Asher B. Garber http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21168 Asher B. Garber Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21168 Got a problem with reality? Trick question, really, when speaking to an Israel basher, who decides what is racism and what is resistance and why it's okay to blow up a pizzeria and why it's not okay to stop missiles from reaching a bunch of a terrorists. Got a problem with reality?

Trick question, really, when speaking to an Israel basher, who decides what is racism and what is resistance and why it’s okay to blow up a pizzeria and why it’s not okay to stop missiles from reaching a bunch of a terrorists.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21140 Anonymous Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:41:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21140 dorn, your attempt at characterizing all Arabs (or even most) as intolerant is, ironically, an indicator of racist thinking.  In other words, dorn, you aren't helping; you are hurting. Barrier-Breaking Bahraini Masters Diplomatic Scene By Nora Boustany Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, December 19, 2008 It takes charm, courage and chutzpah to master the Washington diplomatic scene, and Houda Ezra Nonoo, Bahrain's first female ambassador here and the first Jewish ambassador of an Arab country, is well on her way... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/18/AR2008121803642.html dorn, your attempt at characterizing all Arabs (or even most) as intolerant is, ironically, an indicator of racist thinking.  In other words, dorn, you aren’t helping; you are hurting.

Barrier-Breaking Bahraini Masters Diplomatic Scene
By Nora Boustany
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, December 19, 2008
It takes charm, courage and chutzpah to master the Washington diplomatic scene, and Houda Ezra Nonoo, Bahrain’s first female ambassador here and the first Jewish ambassador of an Arab country, is well on her way…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/18/AR2008121803642.html

]]> By: Charles M http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21133 Charles M Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:18:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21133 was created for just as many Jewish Arab refugees as for European victims of the Nazis. -- LOL! was created for just as many Jewish Arab refugees as for European victims of the Nazis.

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LOL!

]]> By: Charles M http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21134 Charles M Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:18:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21134 was created for just as many Jewish Arab refugees as for European victims of the Nazis. -- LOL! was created for just as many Jewish Arab refugees as for European victims of the Nazis.

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LOL!

]]> By: Asher B. Garber http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21131 Asher B. Garber Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:12:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21131 It's better to flee for your life than it is to be forced out of the neighborhood? Thanks for ignoring the inconvenient fact that Israel was created for just as many Jewish Arab refugees as for European victims of the Nazis. It’s better to flee for your life than it is to be forced out of the neighborhood? Thanks for ignoring the inconvenient fact that Israel was created for just as many Jewish Arab refugees as for European victims of the Nazis.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21127 Anonymous Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:40:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21127 She's lovely,...but she's really just average!  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Once or twice a week, I see a stunning woman (young or over 50) that just takes my breath away.  I am prejudice, but I see beauty in very simple women.  Take away the clothes and the makeup and you have an average "chick"!  She ain't all that!!! She’s lovely,…but she’s really just average!  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Once or twice a week, I see a stunning woman (young or over 50) that just takes my breath away.  I am prejudice, but I see beauty in very simple women.  Take away the clothes and the makeup and you have an average “chick”!  She ain’t all that!!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21120 Anonymous Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:46:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21120 Why do they always have to have such mean-looking expressions? She reminds me of Victoria Beckham, who always looks like she's about to wallop someone. From the neck down, nice. But that glaring pout does nothing for her. I'd love to see her with a smile. Why do they always have to have such mean-looking expressions? She reminds me of Victoria Beckham, who always looks like she’s about to wallop someone. From the neck down, nice. But that glaring pout does nothing for her. I’d love to see her with a smile.

]]> By: Wasif F Dabbah http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21119 Wasif F Dabbah Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21119 2la 2l2maam 2la 2l2maam

]]> By: Beezle Grunk http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21118 Beezle Grunk Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:32:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21118 Many if not most fled, and were not expelled — and several include Jews in government and other "official" or otherwise high-profile positions ... If you want to spread pro-Israel or anti-Arab propaganda, at least try not to ignore all of the inconvenient facts ... Many if not most fled, and were not expelled — and several include Jews in government and other “official” or otherwise high-profile positions … If you want to spread pro-Israel or anti-Arab propaganda, at least try not to ignore all of the inconvenient facts …

]]> By: Tom Vanono http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21116 Tom Vanono Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:25:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21116 she is perfect!!!! she is perfect!!!!

]]> By: Tom Vanono http://www.theworld.org/2011/09/israel-beauty-first-to-appear-on-a-cover-in-bikini/comment-page-1/#comment-21117 Tom Vanono Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:25:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=85283#comment-21117 she is perfect!!!! she is perfect!!!!

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