IDF fashion 2009
March 20, 2009 12:50 PM Subscribe
Even Israel's greatest defenders will have a hard time making excuses for the sickening morsel of trivia uncovered recently by Israeli newspaper Ha'Aretz.
"Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty."
The online Hebrew version of this article also includes pictures of the shirts.
"Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty."
The online Hebrew version of this article also includes pictures of the shirts.
This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a one-day old IDF thread you can take this to. -- cortex
Yeah, the oppression of the Palestinians is in no way, none, not possibly, darkening the souls of Israelis. Because nothing is more important than getting a few more kilometers of the desert God wants you have! Certainly not the health of your Nation or the morality of your children, O Israel!
posted by orthogonality at 12:56 PM on March 20, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by orthogonality at 12:56 PM on March 20, 2009 [2 favorites]
Not only are they killers, they are SARTORIALLY IRRESPONSIBLE KILLERS.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:57 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:57 PM on March 20, 2009
Oh, so they know it's not okay to wear in civilian life, but somehow the military thinks it's okay to wear shirts that feature a battered woman and a 'bet you were raped!' slogan?
Fuck the IDF.
posted by kldickson at 1:00 PM on March 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
Fuck the IDF.
posted by kldickson at 1:00 PM on March 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
They were just tired of hand-me-downs from their beefy, retarded older brother.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:01 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:01 PM on March 20, 2009
The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him."Yeah, I hear down South that even well-off Klansmen hesitated to give their sheets and hoods to their Darkie cleaning women after the getting hose sheets bloody at a lynching. See, even Klansmen have empathy.
posted by orthogonality at 1:02 PM on March 20, 2009
Professional armies aren't like this. Israel is building sick and dangerous men.
posted by Meatbomb at 1:02 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by Meatbomb at 1:02 PM on March 20, 2009
Last night on the news there was a report on the recent outrage over Israeli soldiers and the revelations about them killing of civilians in the recent attack on Gaza. I'm not a big fan of Israel as of late, though I'm not a Palestinian apologist either, but can we just get something straight here, people? Soldiers are trained to kill, and so their perceived insensitivity to killing should come as no surprise, and war is bloody and horrible and innocent people die during war and that really sucks. Why should any of this come as a shock? There is nothing ethical or clean about war or armies, so let's stop pretending that we can come up with a method of waging war that doesn't involve tragedy and bloodshed and awfulness.
I'm not implying we shouldn't be outraged -- just that we shouldn't be surprised, either.
posted by incessant at 1:03 PM on March 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
I'm not implying we shouldn't be outraged -- just that we shouldn't be surprised, either.
posted by incessant at 1:03 PM on March 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
So, legally, what are the repercussions of figuring out what part of my taxes will go to Israel and witholding that much, say, in escrow, or some such? Is there a way to do this?
posted by paisley henosis at 1:04 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by paisley henosis at 1:04 PM on March 20, 2009
Editorializing, I/P, outragefilter...nicely done. Anyone wanna talk about declawing cats?
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:05 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:05 PM on March 20, 2009
Professional armies aren't like this.
posted by Meatbomb at 1:02 PM on March 20
what
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:05 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by Meatbomb at 1:02 PM on March 20
what
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:05 PM on March 20, 2009
incessant, I'm hardly surprised; I'm just outraged that there's a new low.
posted by kldickson at 1:06 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by kldickson at 1:06 PM on March 20, 2009
So, soldiers who are trained to kill actually went out and killed, and then made jokes about killing?
Do people really think this is unique to the IDF?
posted by lullaby at 1:06 PM on March 20, 2009
Do people really think this is unique to the IDF?
posted by lullaby at 1:06 PM on March 20, 2009
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I'll bet you're wrong.
posted by SPrintF at 12:53 PM on March 20, 2009 [2 favorites]