Is this Simply Going to go on Forever?

[Deesse23]

But it means that a highly-educated majority-atheist country is committing genocide.

I´d like to have my non-sequitur with fries.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Apparently yes, it will go on forever:

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar on Tuesday as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The strike on the territory of a U.S. ally marked a stunning escalation and risked upending talks aimed at winding down the war and freeing hostages.

Qatar, an energy-rich Gulf nation hosting thousands of American troops, has served as a key mediator between Israel and Hamas throughout the 22-month-old war and even before. It condemned what it referred to as a “flagrant violation of all international laws and norms” as smoke rose over its capital, Doha.

[...]

Israel alerted the U.S. ahead of time, according to an Israeli official, a White House official and another person familiar with the matter. The White House official would not say if Washington provided Israel with approval for carrying out the strike, but another U.S. official said the American military did not participate.

https://apnews.com/article/qatar-explosi...31a8023db5

They apparently prefer widening the war than settling it. I'm beginning to think that this will be Netanyahu's Vietnam.

I would have picked Biafra. 

Boru

[Belacqua]

Article in The Guardian today on an educated American who commits war crimes for the Israeli army.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...and-munich

Daniel Raab is a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb, who majored in biology at the University of Illinois. He volunteered to be a sniper for the IDF.

He describes in an interview how he shot an unarmed 19-year-old man, though he doesn't say why. Then when the man's brother went to retrieve the body, Raab shot and killed the brother. Then when the father went to retrieve the bodies of his two sons, he was killed by another sniper.

Raab is quoted as saying that he doesn't understand why family members would try to approach after their loved ones had been shot. “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”

He also explains that the people he shoots don't need to be any threat. “They’re thinking: ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong,” said Raab [...] “That’s what you have snipers for.”

Normally The Guardian is a very pro-Israel newspaper, so it's significant that they are willing to publish this.

The article doesn't say whether Raab believes in God or not, but his degree from a respectable US university indicates that he is educated. Though it's clear that the University of Illinois failed to give him an adequate education in moral principles.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Article in The Guardian today on an educated American who commits war crimes for the Israeli army.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...and-munich

Daniel Raab is a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb, who majored in biology at the University of Illinois. He volunteered to be a sniper for the IDF.

He describes in an interview how he shot an unarmed 19-year-old man, though he doesn't say why. Then when the man's brother went to retrieve the body, Raab shot and killed the brother. Then when the father went to retrieve the bodies of his two sons, he was killed by another sniper.

Raab is quoted as saying that he doesn't understand why family members would try to approach after their loved ones had been shot. “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”

He also explains that the people he shoots don't need to be any threat. “They’re thinking: ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong,” said Raab [...] “That’s what you have snipers for.”

Normally The Guardian is a very pro-Israel newspaper, so it's significant that they are willing to publish this.

The article doesn't say whether Raab believes in God or not, but his degree from a respectable US university indicates that he is educated. Though it's clear that the University of Illinois failed to give him an adequate education in moral principles.

You're describing a psychopath. Educational levels have nothing to do with psychopathy.

You're also missing a very important point: Mr. Greene was saying that education is the key to relegating monotheism to the status of an historical footnote, not that it will stop someone who gets his jollies from shooting innocent people.

Boru

[Zozz]

  When is the Arab world going to understand that?
 

yeah no dont lump us good arabs with religious bs pls

[The Grand Nudger]

Leave it to Bel to work out how a zionist cabal launching a genocidal war over the pretext of islamists is somehow an issue of educated atheists.

[Belacqua]

Israel has attacked 6 countries in the last three days.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10...t-72-hours

[Thumpalumpacus]

We put down rabid dogs.

[Angrboda]

The world would be a better place without Israel in it. That's not anti-Jewish, that's just reality.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The world would be a better place without Israel in it.  That's not anti-Jewish, that's just reality.

Therein lies the sting of criticizing Israel. The right wing in both Israel and the US has been masterly in equating 'anti-Israel' with 'anti-Semitic' in the public dialogue.

Boru