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.”
Lighten the fuck up, people.
why would you lighten up when more and more people are being klilled everyday for no reason??
that seems almost villanis
I personally don’t like the war. Any war. I also have a gun collection. I shoot at the range…it’s a skill and a hobby.
The guy’s an AIM member, he’s modified and has taken his jewelry out for a required duty by the citizens of his country. No more and no less.
I must say, that picture of you with the Barrett does make you an asshole, Shannon. I want to shoot one of those. 😐
.. Even though it’d probably shatter my shoulder bone.
I skimmed the comments and I saw a bunch of standing on the soapbox crazy shouting about “the war.” Military service is mandatory in Israel and I only caught one person mentioning that.
Let’s all be happy we don’t need an eight meter tall cement wall between each other to prevent suicide bombings.
posing with a gun does not make you an asshole, but to force people to kill other people, turns every government into killers.
there is no sacred war or fair or unfair war, there is only war or peace.
Wow, people are assholes.
Empty gun, finger not on trigger, guy smiling as he does his country a service.
What’s the big deal?
I think he’s more ‘showing’ the gun that posing like he’s gonne shoot. If he was he would be pointing it more AT the camera, wich he clearly is not…
I really think it’s an appropriate post, it really puts my feet back on the ground.
An as far for the ‘service for the country’… I live in Belgium… the war and the Bush-stuff didn’t make lots of friends in Europe. The general thought about America here is that it sucks. I have my own mind, I don’t follow the crowds. I just wanted to mention this. So for all the non-americans, this picture displays something else…
hey moosh,
glad to see you are well..
PlasticDolly
Maybe if this accompanied an article or something about the way the military treats mods. But like this it was bound to lead to a big argument about guns and Israel. Can we have a nice picture of him with plugs in those ears and his other mods showing to put it in context?
And if you can find one I want a nice picture of a Palestinian freedom fighter/terrorist with a rocket launcher on his shoulder and a hole in his ear. Just in the interest of being fair. Failing that maybe a picture of a different kind of hole. Let’s find an IAM member who has been shot just to see what’s the other side of guns.
Every single comment bashing Moosh was obviously made by an ignorant ass, as he has no fucking choice whether or not to be there. Just to make you feel very silly perhaps shannon should post a picture of a blown up modded guy after a suicide bombing? Where would all the “free palestine” pacifists be then?
The fact Israel isn’t even in the Gaza strip, or any other palestinian territory at this moment, isn’t relevent right? Yet rockets seem to be getting aimed at the innocent people of Sderot anyway.
I have a great idea, how about we “free Palestine” in your own respective countries? They’re such a civilized and cultured people, albeit currently murdering each other senseless over who will be in control (such a bright future I see for their country).
Christ, Israelie pacifists and peace activists somehow make sense to me, they actually feel the struggle and choose to hold these opinions, but sitting safely behind your monitor in europe, or america, or where ever you are, and spouting “free Palestine” is just being a hypocrit.
There’s an interesting idea: A Hamas, etc, terrorist with an earring. Would such a thing even exist, or would someone like that find himself looking at the sharp end of a fatwa?
#47: noble? did you actually use the word noble? do you have the fortune of living in a location with an overwhelmingly high number US soldiers? If so, I don’t understand how you could use the word “noble” to describe anything about their person. most kids are forced or coerced into joining by economic pressures. Oh, that GI bill does sound tempting, doesn’t it???? Bullshit.
“Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria amori”
fuck that
[i didn’t want to get angry. reading this post I was thinking that people were getting way to emotionally involved in a blog post, but jesus, NOBLE!!!!!!!!!! even to describe a decision.. whew.]
I’m so glad to see so many enlightened, accepting, forgiving, and caring people in the Pacifist camp. It warms my heart to know that someone actually cares about people, instead of throwing biased, unsabstantiated comments in every direction. Way to go folks!
Hamas and the other Palestinian freedom fighter/terrorist groups are Islamic. So I doubt we will see one with stretched lobes or a tattoo.
I was just thinking that if both sides were shown then it would keep the comments about the body mods and not the politics. Anything showing an Israeli in military uniform with a big fucking gun was bound to bring out all those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and their comments would lead to the pro Israel arguments. And this becomes a big political debate with nothing to do with body modification.
If it had been any other picture of the guy then I don’t think there would be any of this. Because I’m sure he is a great guy. It’s the gun the uniform and the lack of an interesting mod that has led to this whole debate.
I think a pic of him out of uniform would be nice. And a big peace sign tattoo to showing the pacifists of BME.
#24 “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.”
Exactly. Lack of guns and militaries arent going to make death or killing go away, but it probably would not be going on in mass numbers for reasons misunderstood or completely unknown to those doing it.
Unlike cars and rocks and sticks, guns were designed exclusively to kill with, no matter how much you goons out there want to say that there is some kind of “sport” to it.
#28, my thoughts exactly, alll this does is make the IDF (and all armies for that matter) look cool and happy and friendly or something…
#37, #55 i dont have anything against Israelies and i know military service is mandatory in Israel, that doesnt make it right, nor should it be glorified. Obviously not everyone in Israel supports what its military is doing, or is a bloodthirsty soldier or anything, and i have immense sympathy for those that are forced to serve against thier will, but the Israeli government is just as much a “terrorist force” as any of the “terrorists” they’re fighting. Anyone remember how they destroyed Lebanon last year, killing 900+ Lebanese, many of them civilians, after a very minor attack, and then cutting off aid to the Lebanese people still in the region??
Nice counterpart to the “war is murder” graphic on the front page.. HA HA HA..
Israeli pride, regardless of any politics. 🙂
he’s cute, too.
I sense a “you’re either with us, or against us” atmosphere reading the comments.
We’ve all seen that this oversymplifying in the Dubya-style has ruined the worldreputation of the US in the past few years.
Personally, i detest the fact that Israel-bashing is bon-ton nowadays as much as I dislike Leon Uris’ rewriting of history. I don’t wanna choose a side, but I’m not that naive as the 1994 Nobel Prize committee.
After decades of action-reaction attacks I don’t believe there will ever be piece. This is a perpetuüm mobilé.
Let’s face it:
Both sides are armed, both sides use war-propaganda to influence or indoctrinate their children and the outside world.
hi, #61,
last time i checked, israeli forces are still in the west bank which according to international law IS palestinian land.
not to mention the settlers, which are illegally settled there. 🙂
and being muslim doesn’t automatically mean you won’t have piercings or tattoos. technically, jews aren’t supposed to have piercings or tattoos either – something which moosh has. so let’s not generalize 🙂
“ak47 beats m16 every time.”
I believe that would be an M4 he’s holding 😛
And I refuse to add my voice to the useless political ranting crap this post has caused.
Good luck Moosh, may your time in service go smoothly.
this all thread is totally hillarihus 😛
can’t stop laughing.
first you make all these stupid assumptions about moosh… then you decide that this picture was taken during war, when it’s obvious it was taken during routine training, for FUN. and then you call him an asshole for holding a gun, which he is obligaded to carry as part of serving his country.
you don’t live where we live, you don’t face this everyday situation and you are in no position to judge.
i wish you’d honor him for what he’s contributing.
Everyone’s an expert on the Internet 🙂
hahah hilarious
Why stop here? Why not have a go at the teachers, and the tour leaders, and the youth group leader in Israel who are forced by law to carry a gun to protect the children in their care?
And I would like all of you to stop watching BBC 1, flick over to a non anti-semetic news channel, and see the death and destrustion caused by the palestinians in Israel.
And after you have seen an Israeli soldier comforting a child who is soaked in the blood of her dead mother, after a suicide attack, I dare you to criticise the work that these brave soldiers do.
To join the army, whether compulsary or not is such a brave thing to do. Dropping your guns and refusing to fight is not brave, it is idiocy, and endangering the lives of your whole country.
Think back to the Israel-Lebanon war last summer. I was in Haifa when it was happening. Thankfully I was not harmed, and no one with me was either, but if the soldiers fighting tuned away, I have no doubt I would be dead.
I am against the war, but I am fully behind the soldiers protecting our homeland, against the only country in the UN who did not feel that the Jews should have their own land after we were so brutally desomated in the second world war.
So I say a very proud ”fuck you” to all those who can’t see what an amazing job these guys are doing, and don’t appriciate how hard it may be for them.
Keep up the good work, Baruch Hashem you will be home and safe soon.
goddamn hippies; do you want us to sink your battleship again?
There are always two sides to every story.
Moosh, you look fantastic.
Ya sheko’ah.
power comes from the end of a gun
i wish people will one day realize that critisizing something they have absolutely no knowledge about is a very embarrasing thing to do.
that said, i wish many things that i know will never be…
anyhoooo
the first thing i thought when i saw this picture is that this kid could face jail time if his commanding officers somhow found out about this! it is *very* illegal to take pictures on military grounds! and especially posting them on the http://www…
also, my personal experience with an M16 was far from pleasent, being attached to it day and night for a week.. so i dont get what hes smiling about! its heavy! and oily! and i preffer cold weapon anyway.
i dont know you moosh, but good luck, i hope those 3 years go by quickly for you
maybe i missed it but i don’t think any one has critizized him for what he is doing, i could be completely wrong though, i just whish that people could talk these things out because throwing a nasty work is alot less devistating then throwing a bomb
Guns are neither good nor evil, they are simply a tool man has devised.
Wars are neither good nor evil, only a manifestation of Human development.
Every war that has ever been fought will supply tales of horrors and terrible acts of brutality. But after every war is over Humans find themselves (as a whole) a little bit farther along the path. Some suffer but the collective gains. This is how our present reality is.
There is no such thing as good or evil, only an individual and personal sense of right and wrong, in your heart you know the difference. It’s up to each of us to choose our path. When enough finally choose wisely war will no longer be necessary for Humankind to advance.
i don’t see any problem with this! all of you who think this is wrong and so forth, look at it in this light, if you were there, you’d be thinking different. if you had that gun for YOUR protection i’m sure you wouldnt be bitching. at least moosh has the balls to do something while you all sit pretty in your comfy homes eating your hot meals. give the kid a break.
again i must say i don’t think any one is giving moosh a hard time just because some one doesn’t like guns or war doesn’t mean they hate him
hey,
to all those who are saying “free the palestinians,” have you given any thought to the fact that they wage war against israel constantly, and then bring the war upon their own people by using their own civilians as shields, by allowing terrorists to hide in homes with children and women? have you considered that palestinians are constantly waging a war of hate by spreading propaganda against jews and the very existence of israel? if all these other arab nations support palestinians so much, why won’t they allow palestinians to live in their countries? palestinians want jobs and homes in israel not only because it is considered the holy land, but also because the israelis have made it prosperous and successful. it is just a shame that israel is being constantly attacked on all sides.
i support israel–you don’t have to, but get the facts before blindly swearing your alliance with either side.
oh, and the guy in the photo is pretty cute 🙂
‘Sigh’
I watched IDF soliders firing live rounds at kids in Palestine a few weeks ago, so I don’t find this post particularly entertaining. I have a bullet casing in my pocket as I type.
and that is why i say stop war !!!! of any kind!!!, for any reason !!! life is not worth it not one single life is worth it can you even imagine what the trauma of seeing that pr being there or surving that would be its in explainable !!!
STOP ALL FUCKING WARS !!!!!!!!!!!!
85, in my pocket, i have parts of a missile that landed in Sderot, aiming for houses with children in them.
i served IDF for two years and i’m proud of it. and you know what? it’s kind of hard for me to believe that IDF soliders shot children in perpose.
#11, actually, his finger isn’t on the trigger, it’s below the trigger guard.
This picture’s really hot!
I thought this was a community of friends… what the hell… this is why I rarely visit this site any more. I like the picture… and for those of you that demand peace, instead of bashing one guy and his picture… do something real for the love of pete! Go to the goverments that start this crap… it’s not the guy in the field, or in this picture…. moosh… nice picture man!
Well.. i think i’m going to be the different one when i say…wow…this guy is BEAUTIFUL. hahaha… this is the kind of hot guy you should be posting more often LOL.
I think he’s downright adorable.
#24 Sorry to anyone that thinks differently but I agree quite hugly with you!!!!
I like how the ammo magazine is put in backwards!
“don’t mess with Israel”?
Fuck that Zionist! Fuck the jewish scum!!!
Fuck off, Nazi scum.
Now that’s a damn well used M-16!