Still, don’t mess with Israel or Moosh will get you! Looks like they asked him to take out his stretched lobe jewelry?
Strangely, I am not scared.
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97 responses to “Strangely, I am not scared.”
He’s a baby! A cute baby nonetheless.
PEACE !!!!!
Stop with this stupid war !!!
That magazine doesn’t look like it’s on right…
I’m not scared, I’m disgusted. stupid military crap.
haha my grandmother left to isreal yesterday… hope she doesn’t run in him 🙂
*sings* IDF IDF IDF, IDF IDF IDF.
God I have so much respect for these guys 😀 Keep up the good work!!
My friend Noam is coming over from Israel to see me soon. He lives in such a cool country 🙂
Three cheers for Israel!
magazine defiently hasnt been fitted correctly and frankly his aim for cam and concealments rubbbbbish.
TWT
He’s adorable.
But looks way too young to be holding that:P
the goofy looking magazine is attached to another magazine, which is properly attached. it’s convenient.
regardless of whether or not war is proper or justified, the guys in the IDF are heroes.
The magazine’s fine, he’s using an IDF-issue mag carrier. The carrier’s upper section locks into the rifle’s magwell, and the mag snaps into the socket that forms the lower section of the carrier. That rifle is currently unloaded, but loading is very fast.
#8, he isn’t trying to aim, he’s posing for the camera.
Only problem: His finger’s on the trigger.
i don’t know why he smiles, I mean is he posing with a huge gun and smiling? He think’s its cool?Do you?.
Is killing cool too?
I think he’s an asshole and he shouldn’t be allowed to carry a gun
Wait, no, his finger’s not on this trigger. It’s bent as if it was, but it’s below the trigger guard. I’ve never seen that before.
To those who don’t understand, military service in Israel is an obligation to those between the ages 18-21. The picture of Moosh holding a gun doesn’t mean we’re in a war situation, it was taken just for fun, I guess.
Posing with a big gun makes you an asshole?
shannon:That is one sexy picture. haha
No one with a fucking gun is a hero and guns arent sexy especially in this context. They are ALL terrorists. *takes a virtual SHIT on this picture*
Shannon, if it does, you’re a much bigger asshole than Moosh. 🙂 I’ve never fired one of those…
so if hes an asshole for carrying a gun (not in this context as a picture but in general) then he should what, put his gun down and be shot to death?? reality doesnt = everyone can put their guns down, someones always going to have one and as soon as the others disarm then oh we have someone trying to conquer the world again and nothing to stop them?
What a fucking awesome piece of firearm.
P.S.
I think he has no fucking choice but to carry a gun.
And guns are sexy… almost as sexy as a chick with a gun.
why does it come down to this debates every time?
Guns don’t kill people, assholes do.
Guns just make it quicker for them to do it.
All you ignorant fuckes make me sick to my stomach. “Guns are evil, guns are stupid, guns should be banned buhuu* WRONG! Some people are evil and/or stupid, but guns don’t harm anyone before you add an idiot with bad intentions to the mixture! Guns are just pieces of different materials put together, the rotten apples are to find among humans.
Even if there were no such thing as guns or military people would still kill each other, but randomly and with rocks, cars, sticks, what ever you can harm someone with. Wake the fuck up and realize that we aren’t called homo militans because everybody are so nice to each other!
i wonder how many palestinians he’s had to kill with that. ugh.
wow, i would have expected more fomr someone that isn’t even american, look at venezuela(sp?) war is not a basic human instinc neither is violence, it’s conditioned into us by culture, go read some Singer, Marcuse, Marx, its all there
this war is stupid and a complete blindfold to the popele and what is really going on in the world, like genocide, hunger, and disese
its time epople pulled there head out of there ass and fucking woke up to the fact that war is not neccessary the same way guns are
Stop the war!!!
Stop the genocide!!
End hungar!!
Empty the cages!!!
might not neccesary but has always been part of the human condition, even at the start man killed each other for something
wars are never going to be stopped its completely naive to think so
and what does ‘ not even american’ meant to mean, somehow America is all pro war? im british and im not pro war but its fucking reality, to end this stuff you need power and power corrupts.
If there was a nice visible mod to comment on then I think people would comment about it. But its not. It’s an Israeli soldier with a gun. It’s not at all mod blogish and is rather offensive to pacifists and those who disagree with Israeli military policy.
Normally the possibly offensive stuff is relevant. Like the bin laden tattoo. But this I just don’t get. It seems to make pretty big political statement. ‘Guns are cool’ and ‘the Israeli military is cool’. And I think a lot of mod blog fans and BME peoples will disagree.
free palestine!
(however, #28, he doesnt have a VISIBLE mod, but read shannons caption/check out his bme page…. this can be seen as relevant since yknow… he is part of the community)
#15: LAME
#26: Peter Singer makes me hot. Grrrrrrr. 😉
26# No, it’s time to forget about commie propaganda and realize that communism only works in theory OR if it is forced. Just look at the communistic countries that still exist, it’s the most depressing places on earth! It’s a very fun experiment and all, but it doesn’t work in real life and there is a very simple reason: the “geniuses” behind the theories are naive enough to assume that everyone feels, thinks and acts like them selves in a given situation, and refuses to acknowledge that people aren’t the same.
28# It does say something about the army, government, and their view on bodymods I guess. It appears that he has stretched lobes, but no jewelry in.. Good or bad I don’t know, it could be both.
there’s really no reason for this to be on a bod mod website.
a very poor choice of post.
all it has done is provoke a lot of very poorly-informed vitriol.
is that what modblog is for these days?
The no. 28 post was very insightful. good for you will. I know I’m not part of the “community,” but I would like to vote PredatorDK off modblog.
will/digger — I posted it because it’s a photo of a long-term IAM/BME member in an atypical context; go to his page and you can see that his stretched lobe jewelry has been removed for this (which you can also see in the picture, which is why I commented on it as such in the entry).
#31 me too =)
predatorDK ok forget marx(i agree about communism, good on paper but just can’t work) what about singer and marcuse both wern’t commie and have the same idea that i think has been proven time and again people are naturally good and benevolent, look at what pualdiel wrote about the rescuers in the consentration camps of WWII, and cuba has one of the lowest crimes rates in the worl and has one of the high literacey rates as well i don’t think it could be all bad i am sure it has its rough aresa like any country does i mean look at america it has pleanty of problem zones,
war is stupid and can be stoped there is nothing niave about that !!
its possible if every one tried, but the problem is almost no one is willing to try
Arrrrgh I just feel sick when people comment about things they have no idea about and write so much bullshit!!!
I live in Israel, and I have n-o-t-h-i-n-g against palestinians and no desire to kill them! and believe it or not – MOST of the Israeli people agree with me!
The guy in the picture IS young, because we HAVE to serve in the IDF at the age of 18 as someone wrote, and not in order to fight palestinian people, but in order to contribute to our country! Did you know the IDF is the only army with an “Education” division to help the community? I served in it for two years and did what I can for my country.
Did you know most of the soldiers are not combat soldiers and most of ‘em would love to be without the guns?
So you saw one stupid picture of a soldier with a gun…. so what?! he’s probably at the base on a saturday morning, bored out of his senses and wishing he was home with his family and friends and mods too…. it’s not like he’s holding a bleeding head! Put things in proportions…
And now about the mods – it’s a shame the army makes us remove all mods for the entire service… (2 years for girls, 3 tears for guys)… Hey, but they can’t take our tattoos (-;
Have a grat day everybody.
And don’t hate what you don’t understand.
That’s true no matter where you’re at.
Peace from Israel.
oh come on people.. Moosh is a great guy. he did have to take his piercings out for the army, and you can see his stretched lobe in the picture, so it does belong on modblog. and as someone said, military service is an obligation in Israel, so him posing for a picture with a gun doesn’t make him a bad person or say anything about his views on war.
I hate it when people are anti-troops. Just because you may be a pacifist doesn’t mean that you have to be against the people who have to join the military. He didn’t willingly enlist, it’s required there. And it’s not like the troops decide where to go, the government does and they have no choice but to comply. If it weren’t for the troops protecting that country then other countries would have walked all over them.
And for the love of god, if you don’t know shit about guns then don’t comment! YES, his gun IS put together correctly, magazine and all.
He. didn’t. willingly. enlist. Have the argument with someone who did, people.
Of course it’s relevant for Modblog… this guy’s an IAM member, and I thought a major part of BME/IAM was a sense of community? Interesting pics of the lives of other IAM members is great material for Modblog for that reason. What, are your brains going to implode if you don’t see an “extreme” mod or a sexy woman in the picture??
#37,
it’s funny there was actually a pro-palestinian rally this weekend in DC, and some of my arab friends were surprised at how many jews were there.
but, in the end, it’s not a matter of whether or not israelis have problems with palestinians or not, it’s the fact that members of the idf tend to abuse their power, and having a picture of an idf soldier with a gun with no real visible mods, doesn’t make sense for a blog dedicated to body modification.
salam, shalom, peace.
As 29 said.. Free Palestine!
he looks like an average 18 year old to me
bunches of piercings, pictures of graffiti, bottles of liquor, girls with his name written on their boobs
i’d hang out with him
mandatory military service is something we don’t have in this country
so everyone (who’s american) should be happy about that.
the army is allowing neck tattoos now and their recruitment numbers are better every month so the military isn’t getting any smaller
you can say peace all you want
maybe you should start puttin in work for a new foreign policy
and getting the hell out of the UN
34# Of course you would. Because that is the correct and democratic way to solve disagreement: censorship of all that don’t agree. A very enlightened statement, Ms. Vanity.
36# I disagree. Not on that war is a stupid and unnecessary way to (try to) solve anything, I support that statement. But to think that wars can be stopped simply by choosing not to fight anymore is naïve. I’m sure that the poor people that suffer would like to save their families and their own asses. The only problem is that they in most cases they are not the ones creating the trouble. Just take a look at North Korea and see how far off the track that commie insane asylum is..
Second, a lot of people have been brainwashed to fight for things that I can’t even see any logic in. Religion has, and will always be an excuse for fighting and killing. If you want everybody to be friends and live in harmony, you first have to convince a whooole fucking lot of intolerant fundamentalist that what they do is against human nature and only leading to problems. And that I am pretty sure is impossible.
Third, I don’t believe that humans only posses a good side. Some are good, some are bad but most of us are somewhere in between. We can feel love, happiness and want to give, but we can also feel anger, hate and the urge to destroy. It’s not a black and white; we are all somewhere in the grey area. Some more black or white than others.
He looks so young, I feel like he couldn’t be older than me (19). He looks like a good soldier and I’m glad he is proud of what he does.
don’t you mean occupied palestine?
ak47 beats m16 every time.
what this has to do with body modification, i don’t really know.
“What does this have to do with body modification?”
Sweet fancy fucking Moses. If anyone asking this had read the post, you’d have noticed that it clearly states that he’s an IAM member, and makes mention of the fact that you can see he’s got stretched ears from which he’s had to remove jewelry for his military service.
Look, I’m Jewish (technically). I don’t support the Israeli government in much of anything. But Christ, just spouting “free Palestine!” does absolutely nothing to address the complexity of the issue at hand. Whoever was discounting charges of naivety regarding the idea that, “war is over if people just stop fighting” is absolutely wrong; nothing is that simple — especially this bullshit.
Regardless of what you think of war or whatever, joining the military is one of the more noble (or, at the very least, selfless) decisions a person can make. Defending one’s country is a fucking brave thing to do, and that is hardly up for debate. Not to say that all soldiers have the most virtuous of intentions (or engage in the most virtuous of actions), but on the whole, faulting troops themselves for the faults of their government is often entirely unfair and inappropriate.
As far as Moosh goes, as has been noted, he’s Israeli and, thus, does not have a choice regarding his military service. The fact that he’s smiling in this picture is not disgusting or terrible — it’s *great* that a fucking kid who’s been forced into the most hellish of circumstances can manage a goddamn smile at all.
guns don’t kill people, pissed off ranters on the interblag kill people.
it wasn’t his choice to join the army.
just to be clear because i think i was rather lacking in this area, i don’t hate this kid or what he is doing i support the troops, its not there choice, they are sent places and told what to do and have no choice, i think that is accctually really great that the IDF has an education unit in it if america couldn’t ever get rid of its army i think that would be a wonderful thing too incorparate into it.
predatorDK: no i agree its nothing that can be just haluted not by one bit i completely agree its a long process but i think it a process that is better started now then later, about north korea your spot on, that is something that needs to be paid more attention to for sure, as for religion yeah its lead to countless (and i mean that literally) deaths look at the 100 years war any aryan attack such as the oklahoma city bombing, the holucaust just to name a few, i couldn’t agree more about the fundamentalists, i don’t think everyone who is religious(of any kind) would agree with the majority of the religions decisions, like the oklamhoma city bombing for example, not to many christians would agree that that was a smart move for the betterment of the religions image or cause, as for the natural good in people yeah there are “bad apples” and i agree for sure that its not a black and white issue but it is totally possible for every one to get along there just needs to be more education on the subject and it to will not be a quick process either i mean look at when the slaves were freed it to the majority of the population to accept them as people years and years and the same thing again in the sixties, these are all things that will take a long process as i have said befor but as the wepons advace and technology grows we are just headed for a bridge that once we cross we will not be able to cross back over due to the serious ramimfications using such technology
Geez, I’m not reading all this crap.
I agree with the first post and #45.
And that picture of Shannon excites me in naughty ways. 😉