Vice Photospreads Present 'Girly, Teenage' Side of Israeli Occupation: image via FAIR @FAIRmediawatch, 31 August 2016
(To Iphigeneia)
Your hair is scattered light:
The Greeks will bind it with petals.
And like a little beast,
Dappled and without horns,
That scampered on the hill-rocks,
They will leave you
With stained throat --
Though you never cropped hill-grass
To the reed-cry
And the shepherd's note.
Some Greek hero is cheated
And your mother's court
Of its bride.
And we ask this -- where truth is,
Of what use is valour and is worth?
For evil has conquered the race,
There is no power but in base men,
Nor any man whom the gods do not hate.
Your hair is scattered light:
The Greeks will bind it with petals.
And like a little beast,
Dappled and without horns,
That scampered on the hill-rocks,
They will leave you
With stained throat --
Though you never cropped hill-grass
To the reed-cry
And the shepherd's note.
Some Greek hero is cheated
And your mother's court
Of its bride.
And we ask this -- where truth is,
Of what use is valour and is worth?
For evil has conquered the race,
There is no power but in base men,
Nor any man whom the gods do not hate.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961): Chorus to Iphigeneia, from Choruses from The Iphigeneia in Aulis and the Hippolytus of Euripides, The Egoist, London, 1919
Χορός
σὲ δ᾽ ἐπὶ κάρα στέψουσι καλλικόμαν
πλόκαμον Ἀργεῖοι, βαλιὰν
ὥστε πετραίων ἀπ᾽ ἄντρων
ἐλθοῦσαν ὀρέων
μόσχον ἀκήρατον, βρότειον
αἱμάσσοντες λαιμόν:
οὐ σύριγγι τραφεῖσαν οὐδ᾽
ἐν ῥοιβδήσεσι βουκόλων,
παρὰ δὲ ματέρι νυμφοκόμον
Ἰναχίδαις γάμον.
ποῦ τὸ τᾶς Αἰδοῦς
ἢ τὸ τᾶς Ἀρετᾶς ἔχει
σθένειν τι πρόσωπον,
ὁπότε τὸ μὲν ἄσεπτον ἔχει
δύνασιν, ἁ δ᾽ Ἀρετὰ κατόπι-
σθεν θνατοῖς ἀμελεῖται,
Ἀνομία δὲ νόμων κρατεῖ,
καὶ μὴ κοινὸς ἀγὼν βροτοῖς
μή τις θεῶν φθόνος ἔλθῃ;
σὲ δ᾽ ἐπὶ κάρα στέψουσι καλλικόμαν
πλόκαμον Ἀργεῖοι, βαλιὰν
ὥστε πετραίων ἀπ᾽ ἄντρων
ἐλθοῦσαν ὀρέων
μόσχον ἀκήρατον, βρότειον
αἱμάσσοντες λαιμόν:
οὐ σύριγγι τραφεῖσαν οὐδ᾽
ἐν ῥοιβδήσεσι βουκόλων,
παρὰ δὲ ματέρι νυμφοκόμον
Ἰναχίδαις γάμον.
ποῦ τὸ τᾶς Αἰδοῦς
ἢ τὸ τᾶς Ἀρετᾶς ἔχει
σθένειν τι πρόσωπον,
ὁπότε τὸ μὲν ἄσεπτον ἔχει
δύνασιν, ἁ δ᾽ Ἀρετὰ κατόπι-
σθεν θνατοῖς ἀμελεῖται,
Ἀνομία δὲ νόμων κρατεῖ,
καὶ μὴ κοινὸς ἀγὼν βροτοῖς
μή τις θεῶν φθόνος ἔλθῃ;
Euripides (c. 480 BC - 406 BC): Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι (Iphigeneia en Aulidi), written between 408-406 BC, ll. 1080-1097 in Euripidis Fabulae, vol. 3, ed Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1913.
Chorus
But the Argives will crown you, wreathing the lovely tresses of your
hair, like a pure, dappled heifer brought from some rocky cave, and
staining with blood your human throat;
though you were never reared among the piping and whistling of
herdsmen, but at your mother's side, to be decked as the bride of a son
of Inachus. Where now does the face of modesty
or virtue have any strength? seeing that godlessness holds sway, and
virtue is neglected by men and thrust behind them,
lawlessness over law prevailing, and mortals no longer making common
cause to keep the jealousy of gods from reaching them.
Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulis, ll. 1080-1097, in The Plays of Euripides, translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons, 1891
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No surprises that VICE is going in for soft focus shots of IDF soldiers.
ReplyDelete"where truth is" - Christ, there's the question.
once I heard that truth is "boundaries"...maybe it is just "faith"...
ReplyDeleteWell, it's pretty clear that where truth ISN'T... is with the IDF hasbara offensive, permanent propaganda wing of the permanent Israeli war machine.
ReplyDeleteI could die right now, a mercy it might be, but the hasbara trolls who are paid to litter my back posts with trash would carry on business as usual.
They're always taking a few years to catch up. Today's hasbara spam came on an old post that mentioned Barghouti and BDS. Of course BDS is the #1 target of the IDF troll units.
Not that I can claim the dubious honour of being first in on the curious VICE campaign to "sex up" IDF military service.
Here is a bit of the FAIR Mediawatch piece (published yesterday) from which the latest hot-girls-in-uniform photospread comes:
(quoting)
Vice Photospreads Present ‘Girly, Teenage’ Side of Israeli Occupation
By Adam Johnson, FAIR (Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting), 31 August 2016
For the second time in the last five months, Vice has run a bizarre, titillating photo spread of “girlish,” “teenage” Israeli soldiers that manages to be obtuse and borderline creepy at the same time.
Photos From the Everyday Lives of Young Female Israeli Soldiers (3/15/16)
The Defiant Femininity of Israel’s Female Soldiers (8/29/16)
It’s unclear what’s “defiant” about serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, but the breezy blurb accompanying the Mayan Toledano photo spread has some ideas:
'As paradoxical as it may sound, Toledano’s photos reveal that what seems like these girls’ indifference is actually an expression of their autonomy. In a way, it’s their girly, teenage boredom that reflects a passive, sleepy protest against violence.'
What this means is never made clear, but it would probably come as a surprise to those in Israel who actually refuse military service that serving in the IDF is a form of “protest against violence” — so long as one has pouty lips and “girly, teenage boredom.”
Some observers of the Israel/Palestine conflict have found these glamorous spreads offensive, saying they both normalize and glamorize a military that levels daily humiliations and violence aimed at Palestinians. Author and activist Steven Salaita said, “Vice again provides a hip, glamorous appeal to those who enforce Israeli settler colonization.” Journalist Zab Mustefa tweeted, “Another Vice story trying to normalize Israeli occupation by romanticizing female IDF ‘defiant’ soldiers.”
“It’s the hipster reboot of laddie mag apartheid propaganda,” added Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath.
What raises a red flag about these spreads is the similarities to previous pro-Israel marketing efforts, including one almost ten years ago when the Israeli Foreign Ministry paid for a photo spread in “men’s magazine” Maxim to improve the country’s public image (Jerusalem Post, 3/22/07):
“All the surveys we have done show that the biggest hasbara problem that Israel has is with males from the age of 18–35,” said David Saranga, the consul for media and public affairs at Israel’s consulate in New York. “Israel does not seem relevant for them, and that is bad for branding,” he said. “In order to change their perception of Israel as only a land of conflict, we want to present to them an Israel that interests them.” Which is where good-looking women in skimpy bikinis come in.