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Friends,

The American Jewish Congress composed an ad which consisted of the pictures of
three Israeli women: Dorit Beinish, head of the Supreme Court, Dalia Itzik,
Speaker of the Knesset, and Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister. The ad said: “This
is Israel.” Now, considering that the country in which these women live is in
the Middle East, where girls have no rights, are murdered by their fathers and
brothers if they so much as look at a boy, have their bodies mutilated to deny
them sexual pleasure, and cannot show their face, let alone hold office, I
suppose this is noteworthy. I can’t see anything controversial here, except,
of course, if you hate Israel, Israelis, Jews, Jewish women, and find anything
positive about these things offensive. Let’s say if you’re a member of Hamas,
or a neo-Nazi, or maybe one of Bin Laden’s wives. Well, they tried ot place
this ad in Ms. Magazine, and guess what? The magazine REFUSED TO RUN IT!

This same magazine which weeps over the rights of Afghan women and Iranian
women, finds it too controversial to print this simple statement of fact about
the state of women in another Middle Eastern country.

I find that offensive. If you agree, please contact:

Senior Editor Michele Kort mkort@msmagazine.com

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