By ANDY SOLTIS
February 12, 2002 -- "Dark-Eyed Palestinian Temptress" says she's ready to settle down "and go home" with a Jewish man who will "get me there." Her plea is one of 16 similar personal ads - from "Hot Palestinian Semite" and "Exotic Palestinian Semite Sensuous Love Goddess" - looking for Jewish and Israeli boyfriends in this week's Village Voice.
One ad joked: "You Stole The Land, May As Well Take the Women!"
The sudden appearance of the ads - about one-fifth of all the Voice's "women seeking men" this week - has prompted the newspaper to investigate.
Several of the advertisers make clear they want to live in Israel - and that is raising some concern in Jewish groups.
"There seems to be something orchestrated here, but orchestrated for what purpose?" said Ken Jacobson, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League.
"One common theme, if this is to be taken seriously, is that it is an effort to get Palestinians into Israel."
Palestinians who marry Israelis can obtain Israeli citizenship - thereby sidestepping the controversial Palestinian demand for the "right to return" to Israel that has been one of the most difficult in years of peace talks.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the ads reminded him of several instances in which Palestinian men married Israeli women in the northern Galilee area, divorced after a year or two, and remained legally in Israel.
"They used the system to beat the system," he said.
The Voice also had two Palestinian-men-seeking-Jewish-women ads in this week's issue.
Last July, there was a Voice issue that had several similar women-seeking-men ads but they stopped as mysteriously as they began.
A Voice spokeswoman said it was unclear if the ads were part of a campaign.
Spokeswoman Jessica Bellucci said the newspaper's ad department began looking into the ads a few days ago and was trying to contact all the suspect advertisers.
But so far, the newspaper's inquiry didn't "raise any red flags."
Calls placed by The Post to half a dozen of the women-seeking-men in the current issue received no response yesterday.
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