Current Events > A sniper from Illinois killed 4 members of a family in Gaza

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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.
Its hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesnt really interest me, Raab says in a video interview posted on X. I mean, what was so important about that corpse?

This is so fucked.

Israel needs to be occupied and demilitarized until they learn how to not be monsters.

I wish the UN had a military, and could do something like that

Reminds me of the sniper in Full Metal Jacket.

Both are evil. Both deserve the worst possible fate.

Israel has proven itself a rogue state, and needs to be dismantled.

they will gleefully nuke anyone that tries.

The attacks match a pattern described by a former Israeli reservist, who told the Guardian that soldiers he served with in Gaza repeatedly shot unarmed Palestinians trying to collect bodies.
Its something I saw myself, he said, adding that these killings often came after a first unarmed individual was targeted for crossing an invisible security perimeter.
Once he has been declared an enemy before he has been shot, then the assumption is that everyone going to collect him is his co-conspirator, added the former reservist, who refused to return to Gaza on the grounds that the war had become immoral."

i read the entire article. I was gonna quote the guy too, but this sums it up.. It's happened a lot. I mean we have all heard about kids getting sniped in the head. Insane that they made "invisible boundaries" and shot any Palestinians that crossed it. .

Those soldiers need to get stoned or shot slowly to death by their own guns. They don't deserve a quick one.

Its hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesnt really interest me, Raab says in a video interview posted on X. I mean, what was so important about that corpse

Theyre thinking: Oh I dont think [Ill get shot] because Im 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. Thats what you have snipers for.

Same, I used to be under the belief that that was something they could do.

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??? Feel like youre missing the point of FMJ mate if you think the sniper was evil

World's most moral army strikes again

Edit: This quote is something else:

Theyre thinking: Oh I dont think [Ill get shot] because Im 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. Thats what you have snipers for.

Genuinely evil, I want to say things but they would get me modded.

It's been a long ass time since I watched the movie so I could easily be misrembering something.

No worries mate just try not to make claims you cant back up in the future. Theres nothing evil about shooting at an armed combatant in the middle of a war.

Isn't that a war crime?

Well, you certainly focused on the most important part of the thread.

Good contribution......

He sounds like a danger to society.

He is. But unfortunately those in power are rewarding him instead of punishing

His atrocities should be written down even if he isn't punished.

Yes. In case someday an opportunity to punish him comes. Like how some nazis thought they got away with what they did all their life but then went to prison in their 90s

Maybe someday it will be possible to arrest these people