Mideast Peace Through Porn: An Israeli Website Aims to Reach Arab Hearts and Minds by Targeting a Different Part of the Anatomy

MIDEAST PEACE THROUGH PORN: AN ISRAELI WEBSITE AIMS TO REACH ARAB HEARTS AND
MINDS BY TARGETING A DIFFERENT PART OF THE ANATOMY OPINION (LOS ANGELES TIMES,
SEPTEMBER 1): The Vietnam War-era slogan "Make love, not war" has been taken to
its logical extreme by an Israeli pornographic website, which is engaged in a
sort of cultural exchange of bodily fluids with the Arab world. According to a
recent report in Daily Variety, when executives at Ratuv installed software that
could track where their users were logging in, they found that the site was
getting thousands of hits a week from such countries as Syria, Saudi Arabia,
Iran and Iraq, even though some of these governments block the ".il" A US porn
invasion might not do as much to change hearts and minds in the Middle East as,
say, toning down President Bush's bullying rhetoric toward the region or putting
more pressure on Israelis and Palestinians to settle their differences. But it's
a lot more likely to happen.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-porn01sep01,1,3231110.story
RATUV AT
http://www.ratuv.co.il/IVRlist.asp?IDsup=345&IDsite=416&IDMovie=73&IDcodeCatMovie=2&Tracking=0
SEE ALSO
http://swedemeat.blogspot.com/2007/09/cutting-edge-israeli-info-op.html
http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/newsroom/pdblog_detail/070711_public_diplomacy_goes_pubic/