Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : 1- Sorry for formatting , on mobile 
2- This is a throwaway 
3- Tl;Dr at the end 


Ok so I am a 17 years old male from Palestine (but I have the Jordanian nationality) 

I moved in to the USA when last year (school wise) ended. 

When this year started I didn't think that I'd meet anybody for the first few weeks but surprisingly. 
A guy asked me to come sit with him and his 4 other friends  4 males &amp; 2 females,including me. 

I sat with them and we talked and it was pretty fun didn't expect my first day to go this way and it was pretty fun 

First Friday of school-year comes and they asked me if I wanted to hang out with them so I said sure.. I was a bit skeptical about being friends  with one of the girls because she was from Israel and  because I am a bit sensitive when it comes to Palestine and stuff but said I'll just hang out with the group and I'll give her a chance since she's the first person from Israel that I've met

The group &amp; I hung out for months and the Israeli girl (let's call her Maya) was funny, outgoing and a person that you'd love hanging out and she's really pretty. Way out of my league. 

Before Valentine's she asked me if I'd like to be her Valentine but just as a joke,  because why not and she'd like to know more about me and just have a 1on1 conversation with me. I said sure and to be honest hanging out with her alone was more fun than being with the group because we did a lot of things since it only needed both of us agreeing to do this thing rather than 6. 

She told me she'd like to do it again and we just hugged and went home. 

We hung out a few times when she asked me if I was down to go on an actual date with her I told her I need to think about it and I'll let you know. 

Now the thing is when I date someone I'd like to make sure that there is a possibility of marriage. Like if we loved each other and everything went well nothing will stop us. Which is why I rejected her because everytime I tell somebody that I am hanging out with someone from Israel they'll look shocked and just say that they're really sad about me doing that and just 'selling' my country. 

Her parents hate me &amp; my parents hate her just for the fact that we're from 'enemy' nations 

I told her that I can't because I don't think things will work because of our society and no one would accept the fact that A Palestinian man is married/dating an Israeli girl. 

Am I the asshole? 



TL;DR : Rejected a girl I went out with on a few "fake" dates because we're from nations that hate each other. 

