For fuck's sake
For fuck's sake
Israelis ink the memory of deadly attacks onto their skin | Reuters
EILAT, Israel, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The date Oct. 7 will be forever etched in Israeli history, marking the day Hamas gunmen rampaged through southern communities, killing 1,400 people, in the country's deadliest attack since its founding in 1948.
Now, many Israelis are getting the date tattooed on their bodies to commemorate the dead and missing, and bear witness to the collective tragedy.
"It was a very difficult date for the whole state of Israel, including for those who weren't in the affected areas," said tattoo artist Roey Benezri-Levy, who works in the seaside resort of Eilat, far from where Hamas attacked.
"Some people choose to tattoo images that remind them of their home, the family, or the people kidnapped, in one way or another," he said. "Many of them write the date, October 7. We all understand what that means."
University student Gal Nishman got a tattoo on his back in black and blue ink combining a Star of David with the numerals 7/10.
"The truth is I don't know anyone who was murdered, fortunately ... but the tattoo for me is a symbol," he said. "On one side (the tattoo) is dark, representing those who were captured. On the other, there is blue, the Star of David, Israel, (showing) that we're here to win."
Benezri-Levy said clients had found solace in the experience. "Many folks told me it lifted a heavy weight off their hearts. It brought out feelings I haven't felt before. It gave me a lot of strength, a lot of hope," he said.
Another tattoo artist, Sheli Eliel, has also been busy since the attacks in her studio in Magan Michael, some 400 km (250 miles) north of Eilat, on the Mediterranean coast.
"It's therapeutic," she said. "I never asked questions before, but during the tattooing, the stories come out, they share them and cry. It is quite amazing," she said.
Among those seeking to commemorate recent events was Hadas Karmazin, a resident from the south, close to the border of the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, who has been evacuated from her home as Israeli forces gather ahead of a possible invasion.
She had three stars inked close to her heart to represent her three sons, two of whom are in combat units while the third is set to enlist this month.
She also had a large lotus flower tattooed on her forearm, saying it represented Israeli residents of the south. "It grows with glory and flourishes even in murky water, especially in murky water," she said. "Despite everything I will return home."
After using my religion as a cover for their genocidal colonial project, they simultaneously broke one of it's laws and trivialized the holocaust.
Like not only is this a weird fucked up brainworms thing, but also getting tattoos is explicitly prohibited in judaism.
Anywyas, I hope they all have some white phosphorus backfire on them and it burns their skin so thoroughly no one can recognize their corpses let alone any tattoos on them.
getting tattoos is explicitly prohibited in judaism
Israel has a lot of secular Jewish people that are still generally ethno-nationalist supremacists. Even Netanyahu was raised secular, oddly enough. So you have atheist and agnostic Jews that don't even believe in the Holy Land shit but still support a Jewish homeland on the basis of "Jewish identity" and lebensraum propaganda they've been fed their whole lives
not surprising since Netanyahu grew up in Philadelphia
Nationalist projects often sit pretty uncomfortably with the traditions they subsume, sometimes being more or less outright hostile to them.
Can confirm. For what it's worth, Tel Aviv is actually somewhat chill. But it's like the California of Israel: just the LEAST bad part of a horrifying monster.
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It's fucking weird whatever it is.
Yes
The truth is I don't know anyone who was murdered
I feel like I'm genuinely losing my mind.
Same. The Internet is basically unusable right now. I'm just glad I don't work with anyone who talks about this
Getting 25/6/1876 tattooed on my knuckles to remember all the brave cavalrymen who died in Custer's folly
do that on one hand and then 25/10/1854 for the Charge of the Light Brigade on the other
that was a war against Russia for Crimea where people charged the Russian defenses and all died we literally just did that again
charge of the azov battalion
I'm not a religious scholar or well versed in Judaism but aren't there restrictions on tattoos?
Leviticus 19:28: Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord
Putting numbers on your forearms is also a pretty disgusting thing to do.
Yea, I know I'd be very uncomfortable getting any numbers tattooed on my forearms because of the whole Holocaust connection and I'm not even Jewish.
That's literally cutting flesh for the dead. What?
Americans seeing the tattoo: What happened on July 10, dude?
If they visit the US in a place that's hot like NYC in the summertime - they'll soon wear long sleeve shirts so they don't get any more questions. They might even have to buy some overly warm shirts being that every time an American asks them that question - they rage.
It saves some inglourious basterd the trouble of reminding people which side they were on.
Imagine being Jewish and tattooing a string of numbers on that part of your arm.
Also if you tattooed every atrocity Israel has committed against Palestine onto your arm there would not be enough space to list them all.
Privileged ethnostate bullshit.
Rapidly approaching Ukrainian cringepost levels
dunk tank
what i can't fathom about this affair is how they're characterizing it as uniquely threatening & scary for Israel... the six-day war? yom-kippur war? y'know, times the actual full armed forces of neighboring countries fought them? with more IDF casualties even? these (presumably young) people's parents fought tanks and jet aircraft where are they getting off thinking a small-arms razzia is unfathomable violence?
is Israel just America, with no sense of history whatsoever or what?
razzia
I googled that. Good word.
Israel just America
Israel has gone mask off. Israelis seem to have entirely forgotten they live in a tiny country and there isn't a big ocean separating it from its enemies. When apologists for Israel or IDF spokesmen or Israeli pols have spoken I've only listened to a minute or two here or there. I can't stand to hear them go on and on. But it seems to be that they all sound the same. And it's far beyond the usual "Israel has a right to defend itself." They aren't saying that "Israel has a right to slaughter and commit ethnic cleansing but it's pretty clear that's what they want. Their conception of international diplomacy is that Israel gets to do whatever it want.
Once Israel's ground war starts - for a while they'll keep calling it an "incursion" even though it's clearly a ground war. And then I don't think they'll even try to hide their glee once civilians are in the crossfire. They'll cheer the slaughter and they'll say "This is Hamas's war and they are responsible," or "Civilians die in war," or "I'm sorry to say this. This is war. This is what happens."
And once it's clear that ethnic cleansing is happening they'll say stuff like "Israel must do this. Israel has no choice." They will decide on a preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing. Annexation? Whatever the substitute word - they'll say the same sort of stuff about that too: "Israel must do this. Israel has no choice."
Wake up babe, new person getting "fuck off Russian warship" tattooed just dropped
haha is this a humiliation fetish thing
I know when my settler-colonial project in which I'm heavily invested gets profoundly humiliated on an international stage, I want to be reminded of that every time I look at my forearm
knock knock
who's there?
07/10oct/2023
07/10oct/2023 who?
YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET
Using this as the minimum requirement, Palestinians are going around like the main character in Memento
There was a time in my life where I was out of it enough to write on myself or clothes cause I was such a disaster. But it was stuff like "buy eggs" and not this cringe shit we're dunking on.
They want to be oppressed sooooo badly
We need some Xavier Renegade Angel emotes.
Frittata
could get a pretty sick paramotor tattoo with the same date on it
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Canada will be able to use these to decide which ex-settlers are fascistic enough to grant citizenship after they flee Palestine.
I can’t say exactly why but something about this gave me a very profound sense of dread about how ugly this will all get before it gets any better
Whatever they say I think any Israeli who does this inking their body to commemorate what they want to be their total victory over Gaza (and beyond)? In their bloodthristiness - they are commemorating the slaughter by Israel that hasn't even happened yet.
710, hell yeah
not even using the Hebrew calendar I see
Word.
I'm Jewish and even though I'm an atheist I know it's the year 57-something-something. [Ninja edit: I hope I got the century right.]
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Also - this amuses the hell out of me - https://hexbear.net/comment/4127531
This is real sicko shit. I really hope it's a profound historical forgetting because the alternatives are all worse.
As pathetic as the
fans who tattood that colour number as if they were holocaust survivorsIs Israel just a 4chan prank at this point? That would explain why the westerners haven't tried to nuke it yet.
: "Hey there you filthy ki-...I mean, our greatest ally, us anglos sure can be a little stuck-up, huh? Not to worry, we found this country just for you so you can move out of our countries. WHAT? No it's a ghetto, it's a HOMELAND to protect you from antisemitism until our God rises from the dead and kills half of you! Now ki-I mean, fellow Abraham God-lover, now get this number tattooed on your arm!"I mean, for the Nazis killing all the Jews was the final "solution" . There were other "solutions." Some Nazis had wanted to deport all the Jews to Madagascar, but realized that it was a stupid idea(also evil, but they didn't care). They'd probably be fine with zionism succeeding and all the Jews in the world going to Israel.
I'm not a rabbi but isn't there a specific rule against doing this
American date format. Getting ink'd to memorialize your invader ass getting owned by the natives.