"I wonder if these are the end times."
Join the crowd. People have been wondering that for 2000 years. In those 2000 years, there have been many wars.
That is very easy for an atheist to say. and not worry about,
This will be a gambit
Ah, yes. But none like this one. It is described very well in Ezekial.
How could anyone prdict that such a tiny piece of desert would become the focus of the whole world, such that it would lead to the total destruction of the world?
And if you don't think the current conditions in the middle east could lead to total nuclear war then ..........