There’s been a resurgence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict coverage in the United States media lately. It’s not particularly surprising because the media tends to address it every year or two for a couple of weeks before moving on to something else. Israeli president Netanyahu has gone to rather extravagant lengths to annoy the United States, even though the United States gives it billions of dollars, that the media now has to cover Israeli politics more often than the conflict itself.

In high school everyone wants to be liked – even if they claim they don’t care what people think of them (and those people really seem to care that we know they don’t care what others think). How many times have we seen movies about the lonely student who just wants to be liked by the popular person? The movie usually ends with the message that you just need to be yourself and not worry if the entire school likes you.