No, belief is not required. Again, see example of Jewish secular.

I was wrong on one thing - he was in Hong Kong, yes, but he was already boarding his flight when it was revoked.

On June 14, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against Snowden in federal district court.3 The following day, the Justice Department formally requested that Hong Kong authorities issue a provisional arrest warrant for Snowden.4 Eight days later, on the very morning—Hong Kong time—that his passport was revoked, Mr. Snowden was able to board a flight to Moscow.

https://yalelawjournal.org/essay/citizenship-passports-and-the-legal-identity-of-americans

Here’s the official statement from Hong Kong

https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201306/23/P201306230476.htm

Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel.

The US Government earlier on made a request to the HKSAR Government for the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against Mr Snowden. Since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law, the HKSAR Government has requested the US Government to provide additional information so that the Department of Justice could consider whether the US Government’s request can meet the relevant legal conditions. As the HKSAR Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.

And before people say China collusion, this is 2013, when HK was still autonomous.

Oof lots of misinformation.

• He was in Russia when his passport was revoked, not Hong Kong.

• Russia held him at the airport transit terminal for 39 days, so your assumption of sending him elsewhere is wrong.

• He said that the media had a responsibility to report on facts rather than fearmongering before the invasion. After the invasion he publicly said he was against it.

Yes, tribalism can exist without belief and can even be described as an ethnicity in itself (like Judaism). Unless you willingly glossed over the fact that someone can be secular but still have cultural/familial ties towards the tribe.

It’s not a very smart thing to oversimplify with thought terminating exercises.

That’s the general attitude of a majority of Israelis, not just the Far Right.

If you sit at a hipster café in Tel Aviv and start talking to a random person, 20 minutes later, this person, drinking a matcha latte and speaking perfect English, will start explaining to you that those [Palestinian] children will grow up to be terrorists, so it’s okay to kill them.

Andrey X Independent journalist and activist in Palestine

You must be from the US applying that lens and reducing the topic to such a simplistic lens that has been propagated by both the US and Israeli governments only.

Many abrahamic worshippers believe these are the prophesized end times, especially in Israel.

Nope, only US Evangelicalism specifically preaches this ridiculous type of world-ending prophecy.

Zionism was an inherently secular movement, but to align all of the other Jewish organizations under their movement with a stronger argument, they’ve defined their goals to be “jewish” in identity AND religion. Otherwise an African location would have been a more serious option.

It’s not religious belief that is driving conflict in the middle east, it is religious tribalism (and of course imperialism). And there’s a world of difference.

Because someone could be secular and of that religion, but it doesn’t mean that they would escape harm from other tribes or not have some patronage and loyalty to their tribe. Like Al-Assad in Syria, which as a country was religiously secular by law but was heavily biased towards the Aalawites.

They’ve already annexed more of Syria beyond the Golan heights recently.

Guess who provides Myanmar with weapons and also uses the double-tap strikes?

Genociders will support other genociders

Colombia’s previous president accused Israel of meddling in their recent elections where a right wing trump supporter got elected, but I doubt the incoming president would bother investigating and they probably don’t have the same resources to look into it either.

It doesn’t have a “document constitution” it has a political constitution that is based upon precedence. That precedence being set by the high court.

So when the High Court decided that self determination in Israel is reserved only for the Jewish population, thereby enshrining the right to settler colonialism and they’ve enshrined apartheid into their Political Constitution.

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-07-27/israel-supreme-court-affirms-constitutionality-of-basic-law-israel-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people/?__cf_chl_f_tk=0MP_7BrWw3SqwpsimgtRVku71L0qxGunHaAQL7rtVHs-1783304970-1.0.1.1-ueujDHnBqCJSUwC3Zc176Q7zFcR6zkAhIBzY7ohLGnc