The timeline/lifetimes* of all the known immortals in The Old Guard graphic novels.

(*Subject to G.Rucka's tentative relationship with continuity)

i am literally fucking obsessed with her you have no idea

the old gaurd: tales through time

Plucked straight from my Instagram story.

Andy, Noriko, Lykon and Yitzhak in The Old Guard: Tales Through Time, Vol. 1 (by Greg Rucka, art by Leandro Fernández)

I wanna take a moment to talk about my music producer for a sec @justinwcraig The album I just released, 1001, was produced and mixed by him and he is an absolute genius! He played every instrument and listen to me poorly explain how I wanted something to sound and then made my dreams come true. He has a delicate touch which makes for effortlessly beautiful music! He is incredibly easy to work with and totally collaborative. When we get together it’s a synergy that can’t be explained. I adore you, Justin! Thank you for making 1001 an emotionally beautiful album! Here’s to the next album that will be all originals! 🥰🥰🥰 #1001 #snowpiercer #hedwigandtheangryinch #yitzhak #hedwig #skshpsshpshh #skyshp #justincraig #musicproducer https://www.instagram.com/p/CdERjcdvXIU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ok I'm not sure if you quit or you've just had no headcannons but I've been thinking of this one forever.

I have a headcannon that Tommy gnosis was born on September 13th and Yitzhak was born on November 25th

I'm still here, anon! Just busy. Thank you for this submission!

in the old guard, immortality = statelessness. to become immortal is to become a permanent non-citizen, to never be able to return home the same way.

my cousin died unexpectedly at 18 this last year, a drug overdose, this is a tragedy that keeps tugging on my heart and that no one in my family has recovered from, we all have details that hit so close to our hearts but the thing for me that was new kinds of strange pain and rage was the woman in my community wanting to tell me I had no right to call for a ceasefire against Gaza because I am so privileged in the us I am not in a bomb shelter my name has not been called for the draft, and I found the haaretz list of claimed dead. And in my head is the divide between civillians who should never die in conflict and the soldiers, the soldiers who die- and in my head is the us, where soldiers are voluntary, (even if it’s black and brown and Pacific Islander men who are some of the most heavily recruited, some of the men from my community most heavily recruited due to the experiences of inequality and military imperialism to begin with) - but I had not thought of the fact that with the IL draft so many of those “soldiers “ were 18 or 19. So I go to the Haaretz list and there is my cousin. Again there again and again is my cousin. Her black eyes and black hair and her smile. Any of them. All these “soldiers” and they’re brown and sometimes black teenagers. An eighteen year old girl put on the front line by the country she mi was born to and now she’s remembered as “sergeant” forever. The question of if she ever got to be a “civilian” is so painful. When she’s listed as “corporal” or “sergeant” before being Adilush or Rachel, when her photograph for the world to remember her by is in a military uniform rather than in her party clothes or with friends or at the beach. There’s the pain of a civilian death and then there’s the pain of a soldier’s death when the government drafted them, when she was born into a country whose government drafted her into war the moment tichon was finished, whose government put her there. One of the facts that struck me most in the immediate aftermath of the attacks was that there had been around 1,500 h amas soldiers found in the aftermath. That’s tragedy of an unthinkable level. Not one of them deserved to be there. Not one of them should have been born to an open air prison. I keep looking at the girls on the ha’aretz page. All those blue and white flags and rallies and 1df flag waving and songs and somehow we forgot that as Jews we made a place that put young brown Jewish girls in a situation where they were meant to be killed for their country, because that’s what a soldier does. Obviously I think it’s horrific when civillians die but I also think there’s simply no level of this that isn’t a profound awful multigenerational tragedy. I keep seeing my cousin. My grandmother died and I will love and mourn her, but seeing someone go peacefully in their 80’s is a thing which sharpens the pain of a girl that dies at 18.

Today, November 4th 2023 marks 28 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin will always be best remembered for making a permanent peace between Israel and Jordan and for his part in the Oslo Peace process that set up the Palestinian Authority. He was murdered at a peace rally by an ultranationalist Israeli who felt Rabin had sold out Eretz Yisrael. In Rabin's pocket a blood soak copy of the popular Israeli folk song "A Song for Peace" was found.

Shalom, Haver

if yitzhak rabin didn't get assassinated none of this would have happened

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ohgm my gohd i didnt thuink wicked little town reprise would dou thsi to me h elp im sobbing my fuckign eyes out

by Caroline Glick

Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains, rather than brawn, would rule the roost.

The primary author of the “small and smart IDF” doctrine was Ehud Barak, who served as Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces when the Berlin Wall crumbled. In later years, the slogan was finessed.

A generation of IDF Chiefs of General Staff organized around the vision of a “small, technological and lethal army.”

As Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, (retired) who served as the IDF ombudsman for ten years, has documented, operating under the spell of Barak’s doctrine, the IDF shut down multiple reserve divisions. It cut its artillery forces by 50%. Armored brigades were shut down. The reserve force was reduced by 80% between 2003 and 2017. The non-commissioned officer corps was gutted. The bulk of the IDF budget and nearly all the U.S. military aid were diverted to the Air Force—the strategic arm of the “small, technological and lethal” IDF.

The doctrine was repeatedly exposed as a farce. But to no avail. The air force didn’t defeat the Palestinian terror factories in Judea and Samaria in 2002. The ground forces did. The air force never had a response to missiles from Hezbollah to the north and Hamas to the south. Without regional brigades defending the borders, Israel’s “peacetime” borders with Jordan on the east and Egypt at its west became highways for weapons smugglers.

Brick’s warnings fell on deaf ears until the “small, smart army” fallacy was obliterated by Hamas invaders on Oct. 7. Israel’s multi-billion shekel “smart fence” was felled by bulldozers. Its automatic response system was obliterated by RPGs. Hundreds of soldiers manning these worthless technological wonders were slaughtered or kidnapped. Everything failed.

A microcosm of all things oppressive

This brings us to the second underlying assumption that guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. This assumption, also championed by Barak, asserted that Israel’s most important strategic asset was the United States.

Leaving aside the obvious fact that a strategy of dependence on an outside actor effectively gutted Israel’s national independence, on the surface, Barak’s dependence concept seemed reasonable.

The Americans rescued Israel with its weapons airlift in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In 1992, the United States was the sole global superpower. Because Israel was seen as Washington’s “mini-me,” countries worldwide lined up to be friends with Israel, which they perceived as the gateway to Washington. The vast majority of Americans supported Israel. U.S. military aid to Israel enjoyed wide bipartisan support.

Under the spell of Barak’s U.S. dependence doctrine, Israel gutted its domestic military production capabilities. Nearly everything that it had produced domestically—from uniforms to rifles to bullets, to artillery and tank shells—was shut down. Thousands of military industry workers lost their jobs. Knowledge was lost. The contracts moved to the United States. Even projects developed jointly by Israeli engineers financed by America were transferred to the United States for production. So it happened that Israel’s Iron Dome missiles are solely produced in the United States.