That is all

(either last season or the one before) a quite eye opening segment on the West Bank.

murdering a family, including two small children.

Bet they are proud of themselves tonight, they get to go to their friends and tell them how manly they are, killing two little kids.

Has the world even been so generally mean and nasty before?

how to reconcile stories like this, and the endlessly hard-headed and unimaginative hostility toward Palestinians, with the tremendously warm and sparkly culture that i had the pleasure of experiencing in the late 1990s.

The Israeli-American i know best (dual citizen) is so delightful, a cheery elderly person with great stories to tell…but the comments i have heard from time to time about news events are beyond cringe-inducing.

Probably there are parallels in American culture too.

NYT -

Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late on Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family.

On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming, so there were new clothes to buy. The day’s fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too.

They picked up fried doughnut holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun: Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammad, 5. Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking or feeding himself, was in his mother’s lap in front.

As they rounded a corner slowly, a few minutes from home, young Khaled and Mustafa recounted on Sunday, their mother, Waad, 35, asked her husband to pull over and take Othman from her so she could get something from her bag on the floor. Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say “God is great” — and then heard a deafening fusillade of gunfire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/world/middleeast/palestinian-family-killed-west-bank.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

of course, they don't have any!