“I’ve gotten my friends to give him the silent treatment, but some of them don’t understand the seriousness of the situation, and they’re lax about it, or don’t adhere to it when they think I’m not paying attention.”
Giv’atayim, September 3 – A local high-schooler voiced irritation today as national media waxed messianic about open diplomatic and commercial ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, all while her father and mother violate the more serious taboo of treating her eleven-year-old brother not like the total brat he is.
Two days after a groundbreaking flight by Israel’s official airline through Saudi Arabian airspace to and from Abu Dhabi, an event that observers described as “unprecedented” and “historic,” and which opponents of Israel’s normalization of relations with Arab states decried as Emirati “betrayal” of Palestinians, fifteen-year-old Pazit Ron echoed the latter group in lamenting her parent’s continued acceptance of Ori as a family member in good standing despite his flagrant existence as an immature blabbermouth who does nothing but make everyone cringe.
Ms. Ron spoke to journalists outside the family home in this suburb east of Tel Aviv. “This is insane,” she insisted. “He’s such a jerk. He gets away with things they never let me get away with, and he knows it. He never listens, and he yells and talks back so much more than I do. But that doesn’t stop them from giving him his regular allowance and not curtailing his screen time, even though he’ll sit around wiping boogers on the wall and then denying it. I can’t believe Mom and Dad just go along with it like it’s OK or normal. If it were up to me I’d never let him out of his room. That’ll teach him to take over the entire couch when only one cushion is plenty and I was sitting there literally two minutes ago and only got up to go to the bathroom, then cries like a baby when I push him back to his side, but of course *I* get in trouble. Friggin’ colonialist is what he is. How do they not SEE it?”
The high school sophomore continued to fume. “I’ve gotten my friends to give him the silent treatment, but some of them don’t understand the seriousness of the situation, and they’re lax about it, or don’t adhere to it when they think I’m not paying attention. But if he gets treated like a normal human being instead of the douchewad that he is, he’ll get all the wrong ideas about how the world works and embarrass us all. Also it’s just not fair.”
She then vowed to take matters into her own hands, on condition that the reporters commit to telling the story only from a perspective sympathetic to her.
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