Despite years of being in America, Americans are having a tough time contextualizing the conflict happening in the Middle East. Where most see it as two unlikable players sacrificing civilians in order to expand their theocratic dictatorships, others have shared a more simplistic view on the intensely complicated, heavyweight bout of World Class assholes.
“The way I see it, Israelis are the living light of God and have never done anything but protect people from evil forces, and Palestinians SUUUUCK,” says one man who begrudgingly goes to the polls every November to vote for the “less stupid motherfuckers.” He added, “The fact that anyone can look at this situation and see anything but clear-cut, right versus wrong, good versus bad is beyond me.”
Americans traditionally balance moral relativism as easily as they balance working multiple jobs or the number of meals they eat in order to pay rent on time. Still, there seems to be something about the conflict that neutralizes this inherent talent.
Another person who spent most of her free time this Spring watching Amber Heard and Johnny Depp teach America that rooting for nobody is a very common and normal thing said, “When an oppressive regime occupies an area for decades, it’s clear the only remedy is murdering people who had nothing to do with it. And, thankfully, Hamas sees it the same way I do.”
