I'm an American visiting Israel soon what's my best way of going about hooking up with an idf soldier

They're everywhere just hit on them

she is so you coded dskdhhajf

The behaviors described in that article are the polar opposite of the rallying the entire Israeli community did and keeps doing for those most greatly affected by the war and Oct 7, and not just towards Jewish communities! My family has been willing to pay a handyman twice as much money for repairs because they come from the displaced north or south and need the job and that is relevant for many fields of work.

I've never met another culture so involved and eager to help strangers (to the point of it being annoying and sometimes even invasive lol). It's something that 1) shows really strongly outside the country, where Israelis are always deemed the loudest and most annoying but also the first to help someone in crisis and 2) in Israel when people travel here and are shocked at how eager Israelis are wanting to befriend and help any foreigner who approaches them.

I have a lot of qualms about Israeli culture but selfishness is not one of them

True. Some ppl are just selfish assholes but their behavior is looked down on by general society. When I worked with foreign students their #1 culture shock was exactly what u described - how random strangers are willing to help them immediately without even being asked. Like.....1 of my students was lost at the bus station and didnt know how anything works and some guy just saw him Looking LostTM and literally spent an hour explaining everything to him and helping him figure out where things are located. Another student missed her station and wasnt sure what to do so she stayed on the bus until it reached its final station, WAY outside of town, and the bus driver turned the bus around the personally drove her to her apartment. I heard loads of these stories during my job at uni. When I was in S.Korea I met Israelis only ONCE in my whole multiple months there, and it was on the subway in Seoul, where a group of Israeli guys and girls made a wholeass scene because they saw some dude who refused to give his seat to a very pregnant woman who got on the packed train. Ppl outside of Israeli culture always mistranslate blunt honesty, confidence, loudness and the idgaf factor as rudeness and aggression when most of the time its not it at all.

Child killers

the children:

I don’t wanna be one of the more boring anons and just tell you to kill yourself. You should hook yourself up to an IV and send your location to the idf and tell them you’re Palestinians. They’ll burn you alive. Then maybe you’ll get some practice for when you rot in hell.

this is kind of a random question but because of the keywords and all of the news articles i'm really struggling to find answers in my research-- before they broke the ceasefire on october 7th, were there past ceasefires that hamas has broken? are you aware of any past ceasefires broken by israel?

literally all of them were broken* by hamas**, none were broken by Israel

*rocketfire at towns surrounding the strip is usually how they break the ceasefire. Sometimes its firing mortars at cars passing by the border, or launching incendiary balloons towards agricultural fields. **hamas excuses it breaking every ceasefire in existence with "but Israel broke it first" citing the restrictions imposed on Gaza since 2007 as "evidence", regardless whether they coincide with this or that specific ceasefire terms.