Half of us think Israel is bad. Half of us think Hamas and Palestinians

[Xolodno]

34. This isn't binary and far more complicated.

You have Israeli Jews literally armed and defending Palestinian farms from settlers in the West Bank. Bibi has boasted about keeping Hamas afloat to make sure Fatah can never take control (it obviously blew up in his face) and there are worse groups than Hamas in Gaza. And given Bibi has neutered Fatah so much, many Palestinians don't think they are capable of governing or providing security. And then you have settlers in the West Bank who look at Palestinians as less than animals and don't think genocide applies to them...despite genetic research showing the two peoples as being cousins.

We have a tendency to look at things in neat buckets that are clearly defined, the world doesn't operate that way. We give aid to Egypt, but when my tour van passed their version of West Point, murals of El Sisi of course, but also of him shaking hands with Xi and Putin, not one single one of a western leader.

When I was in Paris, walked past a statue of Jefferson...then shortly later a street named after Stalin.

And don't get me started on Ukraine.

Can't apply our values and thinking to the rest of the world, it doesn't work that way.