There is something so unbelievably ghoulish about watching your high schooler learn about the euphemistically termed “Israel/Palestine” conflict, when Palestine itself has essentially been wiped off the map. Abject, brutal genocide, over the course of two years. The “Final Solution”, if you will, implemented by Israel. There is no more Israel/Palestine conflict because there is no more Palestine. A conservative death toll among Palestinian civilians hovers around 200,000, and the entirety of Gaza has been reduced to a pile of rubble. This all occurred in front of the world, and everyone just pretended it wasn’t happening, until the carnage had ended. And now Israel has moved on to Lebanon, taking the southern region and moving north. The world appears to blind to it willfully, as if recognizing that this small nation is the neurotic indulgence of the United States, and apparently best to leave it be, and let it do what it wants, so as to more easily deal with the US.
