I was just skimming some articles today about this topic.

Druckmann was telling an interviewer in one article that he saw a news report where some Israeli soldiers were being lynched in the West Bank when he was younger. Druckmann’s takeaway was basically “why do ‘they’ have to be so horrible to us?” without actually looking into the history of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. He specifically mentioned “tribalism” at one point, which implies (to me at least) his acceptance of the “this antagonism has been going on for thousands of years” trope.