The first mech batallion of the Khan's Kavaliers is completely painted and ready to field!
And yes, i say first mech batallion because:
A) I've got a combined arms batallion on the works, with vehicles, infantry and battle armour.
And
B) I'm already working on the second mech batallion (tho most of their components will be elements from the new Kickstarter, so it's gonna take a while)
The modern State of Israel, founded in 1948 by the British, is not the Israel of the Bible.
The Israel of the Old and New Testament refers to the ancient figure Jacob, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, whom God renamed "Israel" (יִשְׂרָאֵל) after Jacob wrestled with an angel. The Hebrew word "יִשְׂרָאֵל" literally translates to "he who wrestles with God".
Jacob's descendents are thus called "the 12 tribes of Israel". While it's true that these tribes are the early Jews who form the foundation of the Jewish religious and cultural identity, it is more theologically consistent to interpret the word "Israel" in Scripture as a metaphorical descriptor of God's people in general. This becomes more obvious when considering that throughout the New and especially the Old Testament, Jewish mythology as well as various allegories, analogies and metaphors are the most common way of imparting divine wisdom unto the reader. Very few aspects of Scripture are to be read at face-value or taken absolutely literally. Many of the metaphorical descriptors used in Scripture read as quite archaic, simplistic, outdated or even violent to a modern person.
To someone who reads the Bible in its entirety from a culturally and historically informed perspective, "Israel" - semantically and in theological context - does not elevate a specific race, tribe, ethnicity or nationality over other human beings.
Citizens of the modern State of Israel are not "God's chosen people" any more than other believers are. Galatians 3:28 tells us that "there is neither Jew nor Gentile". And as Romans 2:11 states, "God does not show favouritism".
(All of this to say, most inhabitants of the modern State of Israel are not even directly related to the twelve tribes of Israel mentioned in the Bible.)
It is not a stretch to say that the word "Israel" simply refers to "those who wrestle with God".
I think one of the saddest things on a personal level is seeing Jewish people I respected and admired turn out to be raging Zionists. I see videos of Palestinians being burnt alive in tents due to the genocidal fascism of Israel and they say "so? It's antisemitic to say that's bad, shut up". They literally do not value any life but their own, and then they'll turn around and post "Happy Indigenous People's Day! Fuck Christopher Columbus!" when Israel wants to annex half of fucking Lebanon and is starving people to death. They whine about being alone and the victims when they are defending the needless slaughter of thousands. Like I can't. I can't fathom the arrogance and the hypocrisy of it. It's beyond my comprehension. How do you fucking sleep at night while so complicit? You could just turn your fucking back on Israel and live without the burden. You could defend the people of Palestine. But you don't. Because you're too afraid of having to admit to being wrong and to having to work on yourselves.
وترفع الطفلة يديها لا لتطلب من أمّها حضنًا … فأمّها تحترق أيضًا !!!!
والعالم يشاهد فقط
The little girl raises her hands not to ask her mother for a hug... her mother is burning too!!!! And the world is just watching
10 October 2024.
The terrorist state of Israel just forced patients in Kamal Adwan Hospital to leave, despite several being in critical condition and relying on ventilators to survive. Many of them babies in the NICU and children.
Israel have renewed their assault on northern Gaza, demanding its 400,000 remaining residents move to the south immediately.
This is an ethnic cleansing. Israel is ethnically cleansing the north of Gaza.
ngl at this point i fully believe some nutjob in the Israeli Knesset, or even Bibi himself is gonna be like 'we need to bomb Dublin' and Biden/Harris will just go along with it
Um, what? We're allowed to attack UN peacekeepers now??
My country was a victim of the Nazis, many people from my country were murdered by the Nazis, don't force it on me, you who didn't grow up in a country that was a victim of the Nazis, what "Nazism" is, you don't know the definition of Nazism, because if you did, you would know that Israel is committing fucking Nazi crimes
My country was left to its own devices (Even the USA didn't do anything, but they lie that they did anything), my country is struggling with a fucking generational trauma, so I fucking know what Nazism is, genocide, concentration camps and racial segregation, that's Nazism, that's what the FUCKING DOES ISRAEL TO THE PALESTINIANS
You have no right to talk about Nazism when you yourself support what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people themselves
You are a Nazi, Zionism is Nazism, stop fucking denying it, you are a Nazi and your being a Jew means shit here (You have no right to use being a Jew when many Jews support Palestine, you fucking piece of trash)
Jews are wonderful people and the fact that you use being Jewish to justify Israel's crimes is disgusting, you are not protecting Jews, you are fucking hurting them
Israel is hurting Jews from all over the world, Israel is anti-Semitic, don't deny it, having Nazi views is spitting in the face of Jews, their history, everything that happened to them…
Israel is Nazi and anti-Semitic, if you defend it you don't fucking know your history because you live on stolen lands (Or in fucking America)
If you lived in a land where genocide took place, if you saw blood on the bathtub in a concentration camp, if you saw little children's shoes in a pile, if you were fucking aware of what your people went through, you would never support Israel
If you lived in these lands, you would understand how disgusting Israel is, how generational trauma affects people and how they become their own worst enemies
The fact that you live in countries that are colonizers and not victims of colonization means that you don't know what the fuck Nazism was, you won't understand it until you encounter it, if you don't look at history and see how Nazism was normalized
I live in a country that was a victim of the Nazis, in a country where the trauma is so strong that people have become like those who attacked them, that country is fucking Poland, that's what it has become, the Nazis took our identity, but many Poles don't want to do that admit that they have become their own enemies
Poland, a country that was a victim, but you spread disgusting propaganda about cooperation with the Nazis, you are disgusting, it's like people who say that the Holocaust didn't happen, you are the same
My country has lost what it had before the Nazi attack, a hundred years of non-existence… My country is not the country I would like to live in, it is not my country… It is a shell, it is empty national pride, I hate how many people accept genocide, or he is more afraid of Putin attacking Poland than of what he is doing in Ukraine, fascism has been reborn here and I hate it, the relationship between Poland and the USA has ruined this country, Poland has become the USA, and I don't want a country that was a victim of colonization to become like a fucking colonizer
You Zionist don't know what Nazism is, you are in privileged countries with a history of fucking colonization, you won't understand what generational trauma is and how difficult it is to fight the government when it is ruled by fucking boomers
You won't understand how disgusting it is that they blame your country when it was the fucking victim
You won't understand what resurgent fascism is and how terrifying it is, you won't understand any of it because you're a fucking Nazi
In my country, mosques were attacked and disgusting things were written on the wall with fucking spray because a right-wing government came to power
You won't understand how it feels when people care about their ass and not the lives and safety of other people, you won't understand how disgusting it is when you read that you're a freeloader because you have a fucking second degree of disability
Zionism is the same as Nazism, desensitization to crimes, committing crimes, it's a different name, but the same fucking side of the coin
You don't know what Nazism is, if you call everyone against genocide "Nazis", you don't know anything about Nazism
This is for you Zionists who call everyone Nazis, you are Nazis, what the Third Reich did, fucking Israel is doing today and it is disgusting that you go unpunished when your crimes are visible on a larger scale than the Holocaust, because there is the fucking Internet, your existence Being a Jew means nothing when you fucking have Nazi views
But you can see that in the fucking USA and Israel they don't fucking teach what Nazism is, because your education is crying in fucking pain
Because if you knew what the fuck Nazism was, you would know that Israel is built on Nazism
May these bastards never leave the bars, that's what I fucking wish for them
“What is the line between commemorating trauma and cynically exploiting it? Between memorialization and weaponization? What does it mean to perform collective grief when the collective is not universal, but rather tightly bound by ethnicity? And what does it mean to do so while Israel actively produces more grief on an unfathomable scale, detonating entire apartment blocks in Beirut, inventing new methods of remote-controlled maiming, and sending more than a million Lebanese people fleeing for their lives, even as its pummeling of Gaza continues unabated?”
Just a reminder that this did not start on October 7, 2023. This began back in 1948 (before even) and ever since then more and more Palestinians have been displaced and killed as the years have passed. I watch the news today and all I see is people pitying Israel, shaming Palestine for daring to fight. Do not come to me saying “both sides”. Do not come to me saying you do not care, or that Palestine is run by terrorists, or anything like that. It has been one year since the world started paying this much attention, but it has been over 76 years since this genocide started. Palestinians have been fighting for their dignity and right to live, and they still are. This day is a reminder to keep fighting with them, any way you can.
Abbas Nasir, ‘Nasrallah’s murder’, Dawn
