Tel-Chai Nation: Collette Avital overreacts about swimsuit modeling

Maxim decided to do a special issue dedicated to female IDF soldiers who've also worked as models, but it seems that on the left, yes, the left, there are those who dislike it because, y'know, it's worse than violence, I'm betting.

A spread in the upcoming July issue of Maxim features a roster of Israeli models, all ex-soldiers, photographed wearing very little in the cause of their country. Headlined "Women of the Israel Defense Forces," the campaign has already been criticized as inappropriate in Israel.

Sounds to me as though this AP dud were taking the side of those who dissent, more on which anon. I really don't like the way they put it here, as it sounds, um...rude.

The consulate and Maxim were set to launch the Israel-themed photo shoot at a glitzy event in Manhattan on Tuesday night.

But in Israel, the campaign drew an angry reaction from lawmaker Colette Avital, a former diplomat who served as Israel's consul-general in New York in the 1990s.

"We definitely have public relations problems, and I'm all for creative solutions," Avital told The Associated Press. "But there are enough beautiful and interesting things we can use to tap this demographic than to show a half-naked woman in a magazine of this kind, considered pornographic.

"I don't think this helps Israel's image."

So says someone who can only think to offer up a superficial argument and who probably thinks that weakness in the face of Hamas/Fatah terrorism is what helps Israel's image. I've seen at least one of the advertisements already, and it's far from being the insult that Avital, in all her leftist mindset, perceives it to be.

And Gal Gadot is such a darling!