According to Iraqi model Sarah Abdali Idan (سارة عيدان) clarifying "This picture doesn't mean I support the Israeli government or its policies...,?"
Selfie to Miss Iraq and Miss Israel starts new war of words. May be they take selfie for giving message "Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel", but the result of their posing together in one picture has provoked quite an opposite.
Miss beauty queens Sarah Idan and Adar Gandelsman are representing their countries at the Las Vegas event of Miss Universe 2017 beauty pageant, but Miss Iraq post her selfie with miss Israel on her Instagram account.
More than 4,200 people likes her photo, but it also starts bad and good comments regarding her pose with Miss Israel. She also faces a war of Iraq and Israel on social media comments.
In response to bad comments the 27 year old Miss Arabic Idan said Gandelsman told her "she hopes that one day there will be peace between the two religions (Judaism and Islam) and that her children will not have to do military service".
"She asked for a selfie with me and I agreed, she also saying that I too hoped for peace and wanted to help pass on the message," she added, who said she had served with both the US and Iraqi armies.
In her statement about Israel Govt. polices she said “this photo doesn't mean I support the Israeli government or its policies towards our Arab nation. I apologies to everyone who saw it as an insult to the Palestinian cause -- this was not its purpose."
One online response, from Isra al-Jabri, read: "Your peace with Israel, which has burned the Arab world for its own interests, does not honour us..."
"I respect pacifist Jews who oppose the state of Israel, but we don't want their peace built on the ruins of our country," Jabri added.
However, Samah al-Meshhadani believed that Miss Iraq had "made good use of this story".
"Maybe she will succeed in improving our relations with Israel so we become friends, who knows?"
Idan, a Muslim, was born and raised in Baghdad. Following the US-led invasion in 2003, she worked with the American military from 2008.
She later moved to the United States and got a degree in Los Angeles.
Gandelsman, 19, also posted a picture with Idan on her own Instagram account.
"This is Miss Iraq and she's amazing," the Israeli wrote.
In 2014, her country's Miss Universe contestant provoked uproar by posing with her counterpart from Lebanon, another country with which Israel is still technically at war.
