You're not being as sly as you think you are. You said "they’ll still be killing each other", implying that this is the nature of the "Middle Eastern" people.

This, of course, is a statement that almost required the person who replied to you to add context due to the absurdity of the statement.

If you genuinely did not mean to imply this, you might consider reading your comments before submitting.

That's not what you said. You implied it's simply in the nature of the Middle East to be fighting religious wars, and that is why you are hopeless.

In fact, the aggressors in this case are European colonists, only 3rd generation or so, and they are pretty much following the standard historical playbook for how European colonists treat locals, including the assumed divine right of genocide ("manifest destiny") The Middle East isn't an especially belligerent place otherwise.

So I call your characterization unfair.