Posted on 05/28/2021 12:43:04 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
They’re young, hot and ready for war.
Members of the Israel Defense Forces are posting “thirst traps” on TikTok amid the nation’s conflict with Hamas — and experts say it’s part of a larger strategy to garner support and spread nationalism as the social media masses flock to support Palestinians, Rolling Stone reported.
The IDF, which is in the midst of a cease-fire with Hamas following a short war that left 13 Israelis and over 240 Palestinians dead, has long been social media-savvy with a strong online presence, but they’ve stepped up their game amid the latest round of conflict in Gaza, the outlet reported Friday.
As the platform is flooded with images of people running away from Israeli airstrikes, soldiers with the IDF are responding by pumping out pro-military content like showing off their uniforms or meeting loved ones at the Gaza border, the outlet said.
“There is a long history within Israel of military iconography favoring the beauty in uniform as a nationalist symbol,” Rebecca Stein, a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University and author of “Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine,” told the outlet.
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Here’s a similar photo from the NY Post from around 2012 in which an off-duty IDF soldier visited a Tel Aviv beach with her M-16 ...
sign me up
Draft me.
It’s a trap?
I have a female friend who has an old shot of her on the beach near Tel Aviv in short shorts, a tight top, and her rifle. She looked GOOD!
Saw many IDF gals when I visited. Very pretty.
I especially loved the dudes in shorts and flip flops walking around with rifles slung on their backs when we were on the Med. Felt very safe the entire time.
LOVE Israel. I want so to go back! It was on my “bucket list” to even go the first time. I need to change that to 100 times. 😊
Pour me a tall one ... just sayin ...
A lot of those “hot IDF girls” are Ukrainian and Russian models hired for PR photos.
Да, правда.
Killjoy
Same here!! Love Israel and Tel Aviv is a sight! 💖 the sights, sounds, food, people, hot guys working out at open air gyms! I want to go back so bad 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 🇮🇱
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There’s nothing like boot camp followed by a year or two of military fitness training to make young women really shine.
They do not all look that good. BUT THEY ALL ARE HOT! A taught sleek body with an M4 slung on the shoulder, it does not get much better than that.
Score 2 for the ladies. Post pics y’all. Have never been. Now I think I will take my youngest daughter. She needs to see that.
Lol! I have no idea how to post pics from my frou frou camera. However! Google image “Tel Aviv Beach gyms” and I swear those look exactly like the pics I snapped!
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