German journalists detained by Israeli soldiers: 'Asked if we were Jewish at gunpoint'
German journalists detained by Israeli soldiers: 'Asked if we were Jewish at gunpoint'
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While not clear from this article, the German one mentions
According to the team, the soldiers were probably settlers from the area who have now been called up as reservists. They were travelling in a private vehicle and were wearing civilian headgear.
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Man, the 20s are a weird time. A century ago, it would have been the Germans asking the Jews if they were Jewish at gunpoint, not the other way around. It's almost funny how "never again" is now just "again" now that Israel is taking charge...
It wasn't just "the Germans" that did pogrom after pogrom to the Jewish populations of Europe and the Middle East.
It was all of them. Over and over again for millennia.
And according to the the Torah, Israel was originally founded in genocide. It's seen as righteous and necessary, dashing the infants against the rocks, child brides, wiping out the tribes of Canaan and all that. Yahweh was all for it.
The main factor as to whether one Abrahamic group or another will commit to genocide is generally just whether they are in power or not. Whenever there is a Christian majority, or a Muslim majority or, as we've seen over the last fifty years, a Jewish religious majority, they set about oppressing whichever of the others are a minority.
It's the Abrahamic philosophies themselves that are poisonous and sustain this spirit of neverending conquest. You'll never have anything resembling peace in the middle east until the people there move past bronze age beliefs about how they are entitled by god to own some piece of land and everyone else is just collateral or second class citizens. Likewise with christianity in the west and everywhere else it's been spread.
Mind you, other religions can sustain genocide as well. As can atheism. In the end it's just plain old tribalism with a different coat of paint.
Atheists are far less likely to be committing genocide. Atheist tend to value skepticism and science highly as well as logic and reason. Combining these generally leads to people who are humanists at their core.
I'm not aware of a single war that was ever carried out under the banner of atheism.
You are poorly educated...
Look at the USSR history and current regime in China. Literally doing the same genocide shit while being proud atheists.
I'd argue that they aren't so much atheist as they are fascist, as in, the leader is the god.
Doing dirty work of the ruling elites can cause peasants to do violence.