yep

u mean right side up or upside down?

this is by far the most succinct statement on israeli identity (and too an extent, a lot of jewish identity just by osmosis) in a post shoah world that i have ever read, and that is...that is very sad. 

“by ourselves”

...damn. fucking dammit.

fegeleh did you see this? i think this quote is exactly what you were talking about IRT israeli hypermasculinity as backlash against perceived jewish passivity

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I have said this publicly so many times and so many of my friends continue to do it (not as a tumblr meme but just lizard ppl jokes in general) its infuriating

it really is

like even political cartoons seem to enjoy this wacked-up tradition of calling politicians they dont agree with as lizards

“With our origins in Judea, Jewish culture being authentically Middle Eastern and the Hebrew language being a Semitic tongue indigenous to the Levant, the Jewish people are clearly not a Western people.  While Israel may be more technologically developed or more democratic than other countries in the region, neither of these components is essential enough to redefine our people’s collective identity for over three millennia. We are clearly neither a byproduct nor a branch of the Western world, but rather our own unique Semitic civilization.”  (bolded for emphasis)

I think Ive just rly internalized this fckd up thing about my exps w abuse IN GENERAL “not being bad enough”, its hard for me to admit that its all trauma even if other ppl “had it worse” and like I duno where that idea came from but its so damaging

to me, that's a pretty fucking classic sign of abuse. thinking that our expereinces weren't bad enough i think pretty much every survivor/victim, of all forms of abuse, goes through? i know that accepting your trauma can be so hard and take ages and be agonizing and it's ok to still be processing evertything that has happened/is currently happening to you. it takes time. 

i agree, though i prob wouldnt post in the tag cause i feel like its reserved for ppl whose exp’s r “worse” than mine - like, in the grand scheme of things my exp’s, while abusive, were nowhere near as traumatic as i’ve heard other ppls. i duno