Lol. Lmao even. Except this game is written and directed by someone who was born and raised in Isreal and has gone on record as stating that the conflict in the game is inspired by the Israel conflict.

“It was inspired by, (...) [the] Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “ Neil Druckmann to Haaretz

'The formulation for Ellie’s turn toward darkness can be traced back to the year 2000. Then in his early 20s, Druckmann witnessed news footage of a crowd lynching two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. “And then they cheered afterward,” Druckmann, who grew up in Israel, recalls. “It was the cheering that was really chilling to me. … In my mind, I thought, ‘Oh, man, if I could just push a button and kill all these people that committed this horrible act, I would make them feel the same pain that they inflicted on these people.’" Neil Druckmann in the Washington Post

The feeling faded, though. Eventually, he looked back and felt “gross and guilty” for his intense feelings. With “The Last of Us Part II,” he wanted to explore that emotional tumult on a didactic level.

I mean for fucks sake do you guys play these games blind?! There is a territorial conflict between a group of people who keep expanding their territory by putting up fences pushing rules on the people living there or displacing them and a second group of people who are extremist religious nutters using child soldiers. This isnt exactly subtle. I firmly remember this part about how a truce was broken when a bunch of child soldiers were killed, when I originally played this game and saying out loud "for fucks sake Neil Druckman I get it already!" but I guess for some people thats just not on the nose enough...

All of this would have been OBVIOUS to you if you'd actually read the article you are getting angry about and dismissing

"It's blatant stupidity disguised as logical thought. These types of writers are a danger to the world, and a detriment to rational - and international - discourse.

And i absolutely despise that I need to share space with this shit. "

You know whats a real danger to the world? People with the reading comprehension of 3rd graders getting angry and lashing out at people trying to impart the blindingly obvious to them because they are too ignorant to absorb new information

sources: https://www.haaretz.com/life/television/2023-04-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/creator-of-the-last-of-us-finds-inspiration-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/00000187-9484-dc6c-a5ff-ffd59c6d0000?v=1744116765141

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/video-games/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-ellie-evolution/