It's always complicated

As with everything else, social media greatly oversimplifies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

We can set the “days since Damian nuked his Twitter account” sign back to zero. When I was out for a drive with my son on an absolutely stunning early summer Saturday, through some of the beautiful countryside surrounding Halifax, all I could think about was how I was going to own some people whom I’ve never met and have never followed, but who responded to some of my tweets about the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I finally had to ask myself, what am I doing with my life? There has to be something better I can do with my time than arguing with total strangers (and very possibly bots) about events happening on the other side of the world.

And then I was up past midnight arguing about it on Reddit. In the Formula One racing subreddit. (They locked the thread before I could respond to the guy who said the Balfour Declaration was issued because Britain owed money to the Rothschilds.)

According to many social media memes, there’s nothing to discuss anyway. This conflict which has…