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It seems candidate McCain's own daughter, with her mother's approval, has inserted herself in the midst of this controversy, and it is a 20 years old issue, in the US....
From Meghan McCain's blog:
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http://mccainblogette.com/arcs/021908.shtml
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Rachel Ray:
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A Year Ago:
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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/fashio..._is_behind.php
Times Is Behind the Times With Keffiyeh Trend
Posted by Jessie Pascoe at 6:51 PM, February 13, 2007
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(From <a href="http://mfad.typepad.com/">here</a>)
Apparantly the keffiyeh's very "in" these days. In the Times' Sunday Style section, Kibum Kim notes Urban Outfitters' decision to sell the military scarf popularized by Yasser Arafat. A call later regretted since the scarf was pulled " '[d]ue to the sensitive nature of this item'." Kim diggs into the past of this controversial accessory:
For those with a long memory, the current kaffiyeh craze may seem familiar. The scarves became a fashion statement in the United States at the start of the first intifada in 1987. In 1988, CBS News and Time magazine chronicled the trend. In a 1992 Michigan Quarterly Review article about the kaffiyeh's modern history, Dr. Swedenburg wrote about how a "sign of Palestinian struggle suddenly appeared in the ensembles of 'downtown' U.S.A., together with black turtlenecks, ripped Levi's, high-top sneakers and eight-zippered black leather jackets."
In its 2007 revival, the kaffiyeh has similar sidekicks. "It's hipster 101: I need my skinny jeans, some sort of scarf and a beat up T-shirt," Ms. Hukahori said. "O.K., I'm a hipster now."
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20 Years Ago:
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...967046,00.html
Monday, Mar. 21, 1988
Scarves And Minds Kaffiyehs from the Middle East warm up March winds
By JAY COCKS
The pronunciation is tricky. So are the provenance and political implication of the scarf on sale from sidewalk vendors all over the East Coast. Say ka- fee-a, and the sound will be right. Wear the large, brightly checked square of cotton around the neck, shawl style over the shoulders or wrapped around the head, and the look will be perfect 1988 American street style. It is also what millions of Americans see on their TV screens practically every night, worn by Palestinians defying Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories.
There are indications that the kaffiyeh style, now competing with running shoes as hot dress-down items in New York City and Washington, is spreading ever westward. When Herman Ruether, interim director of the Chicago-based Palestine Human Rights Campaign, heard that the kaffiyeh was becoming fashionable, he said, "I started talking to people at random." The results of Ruether's informal poll: only three out of ten people cited politics as their reason for wearing the scarf. He adds, however, that during the most & recent episodes of violence in Israeli-occupied areas, his office received a large number of calls from Americans sympathetic to the Palestinian cause inquiring where kaffiyehs could be bought.
Long a staple of the Middle East tourist trade and a basic component of wardrobes in the Levant, the kaffiyeh came to the U.S. via Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some of its freshness. But the current televised spectacle of kaffiyeh-wearing rebels playing hob with the Israeli army gives the scarves an odd, often ironic resonance when they are worn in the West. Visual continuity suggests a political solidarity that usually comes as a big surprise to the Western wearer. "It's just an accessory," says Kenneth Kaiser, a Boston retail- clothing-store manager. "The ethnic type of look is in right now." "The idea that it's political is ridiculous," says New York City Artist Steven Charny. Comments Mordechai Levy, head of the Jewish Defense Organization in New York City: "Now there are so many, they are just like any other scarf."...
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