Fashion Shoot Slated for Israeli Barrier

[Scurrilous]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-fence-fashion,0,5095084.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

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"An Israeli fashion house plans to shoot its summer catalog at Israel's West Bank security barrier this week, the company said Monday, less than a week after troops shot dead two Palestinians protesting the network of walls, wire and ditches.

A statement from the fashion house, Comme-il-faut, said the one-day shoot Wednesday would take place at a section of the barrier on the edge of Jerusalem "for the purpose of creating a dialogue around boundaries."

The statement said the event would contrast beauty, femininity and fashion with a "concrete wall of insult, ugliness and humiliation."

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"Noam Hofstatter, of human rights group B'Tselem, said that if Comme-il-faut really meant to draw attention to human rights abuses caused by the fence, "then that would be welcome."

[Bozola]

1. it'd be nice if they could work in some armored bulldozers, too

[stopthegop]

2. yeah!!!

and maybe a 16 girl strapped with explosives killing other 16 year old girls...that'd get the dialogue going...

[Resistance]

3. or

they could wheel in the boy who was shot in the back by Israeli soldiers (who is now paralyzed) and display him in the background somewhere. What dya think?

:party:

[stopthegop]

4. that would work also....

[cprise]

5. Patsy Stone getting rennovations done with a bulldozer...

[packerssuck]

6. Maybe they can use preteen models with explosives attached to

their bodies and a martyrs video in their hand.

[number6]

7. all that would make quite a show

:evilgrin: :nuke:

armored bulldozers, maimed civilians, jets, attack helicopters,
suicide bombers, security barriers, bombed bystanders-bus riders
colateral damage ....sounds like the Republican Convention

[Resistance]

8. bottom line

will it sell? Can a buck be made?

[Scurrilous]

9. Pics:

http://www.reuters.com/newsGalaxyPhotoPresentation.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4488242&index=0

http://www.reuters.com/newsGalaxyPhotoPresentation.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4488242&index=1


Fashion Models Sashay in Front of West Bank Barrier

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4488242

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" Fashion models sashayed beside the controversial barrier Israel is building inside the West Bank Wednesday to encourage Israeli and Palestinian women to work together for peace.

"As women, we are trying to cross boundaries many times a day," said CEO Sybil Goldfiner, CEO of the feminist Israeli fashion house Comme-il-faut, which turned the construction site for the wall on Jerusalem's fringes into a catwalk.

"We offer a suggestion, or the hope, that women from both sides who bring life into this world will unify to stop this killing that has gone on for too long."

The models, garbed in vivid summer outfits, were from Slovenia, Russia, Poland, France and Israel. Goldfiner said she tried in vain to recruit Palestinian models. Israel restricts entry of Palestinians, citing security."