“ “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, who majored in biology at the University of Illinois before joining the Israel Defense Forces. “That’s what you have snipers for.” “

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    Don’t know about the US, but you can definitely get locked up for war crimes in Germany, no matter where and in what capacity you carried them out

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    I had to stop reading this halfway through. It made me feel sick.

    As a Jew I am deeply deeply ashamed for what is being done, supposedly in my name. As a Brit I am ashamed for what my government has enabled.

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          No it’s not. It’s a spooky scary story from an old mentally ill man’s book. Remove the facade. There is clearly no Jewish god or any other god. It’s all bullshit.

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            That’s beside the point though. Or do you think this little war is actually about what it means to be Jewish? Because it is not.

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              Nope. Grow the fuck up. Spooky stories are not worth killing over. If you can’t give up the spooky stories. Go get deprogramming help from Cult rehabs.

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          Not really.

          He believes in an ancient dogma that still advocates for cutting off the foreskins of newborn males so they can’t enjoy sex as much as an adult.

          It was time to renounce his faith the moment he learned about it, as is the case for all major religions.

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            I see the ignorance is of the wilful variety. You don’t know what he believes. You’re constructing a transparent narrative for your own emotional needs. You clearly do not legitimately care for his interests, or you would be approaching this with compassion and empathy instead of as a bigot. Get a grip and at least stop telling on yourself. We get it, you have religious trauma, stop the fucking world.

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                  Lol. Calling me a bigot while defending organized religion is rich.

                  I’m just going to write you off as another average internet user and move on with my life. You can respond if it makes you feel better, but I won’t see it.

                  Goodbye, and good luck!

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    Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.

    “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?”

    Those guys left Europe/USA to kill some Arabs, they will never face any consequences from those war crimes and it’s just disgusting, I hate this world so much

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      Wooooooooooh. They better not come back to the USA. I guarantee you they won’t last long once they come back civilian life. These men will shoot themselves from the demons that will follow them.

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      I mean, you know his name and the city he lives in. Just because our government won’t do anything doesn’t mean he won’t be punished.

      Social media and public records can get you any additional information you’d need.

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          You mean Daniel Raab, the war criminal and admitted murderer of civilians, from Naperville Illinois?

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        True, and Israel’s hunt for german nazi’s in foreign jurisdictions sets some precedent in handling that sort of thing.

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      Hopefully someone finds where they live and enacts some kinetic vigilante justice one night. I for one hope that the justice happens in front of their families so they too can experience what their loved ones put the Palestinians through.