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Isn't Ben-Gvir the person who purposefully vandalized the former PM Rabin's car and who was suspected of having connections to those involved in assassinating Rabin?

Here are the women in question, by the way. They shot the older mother ("grandmother") first and her daughter, the middle-aged woman, tried to drag her to the church before the IDF shot and killed her as well.

Good timing, I was literally editing my original comment to note that when you posted at the same time!

The hypocrisy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (and the German government in general) is incredible.

Here you have a Jewish person who is a journalist and a renowned political thinker who was being given the award for being someone who "reports on power games and totalitarian tendencies as well as civil disobedience and the love of freedom".

They 100% have the position, right, and accuracy to be comparing the state of Gaza currently to the WWII ghettos.

Edit: Something else to note. The Foundation made this statement ""But Masha Gessen's views should not be honored with a prize intended to commemorate the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt".

And I can't help but laugh. Do they not know Arendt's past stance on Israel? She was literally one of the first world-renowned Jewish anti-Zionists.

She literally compared the Likud party to the Nazis!

It's not necessarily new information, just that the NYT has conglomerated everything we already knew into a single article.

But it's been pretty well known that Netanyahu and Israel were responsible for Hamas existing and being funded in the first place, in order to undermine the Palestinian Authority that was actually making progress toward a two state solution, which Israel really hasn't been in support of for decades, but had to pretend they supported to stay the "good guys".

Not the entirety of the article, no, just one of the relevant parts

Unlike security assistance to Ukraine, where the US details types of weapons and capabilities, the shipments to Israel have been far more discreet, with the Defense Department rarely acknowledging or announcing what types of weapons or equipment it is sending.

It's this fact of trying to coverup what exactly is being given that shows how they know what they're doing is wrong.

And this wasn't from bombing or shelling or anything like that. The IDF went in and set up physical explosive charges to demolish the building.

What could even be the excuse for doing something like this?

And it should be noted that their retraction statement doesn't even mention or detail what the article is in question or what it was about. So still trying to hide their failures even to the end.

Thank goodness Twitter still has Community Notes by users (for now, since Elon wants it removed because it keeps correcting his lies).

Yes, but he had already thrown his weapon away and had his hands in the air surrendering. We shouldn't be killing all bad guys once they've surrendered either.

Yes, but it's behind a paywall: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-01/ty-article/.premium/israeli-soldier-who-killed-civilian-during-response-to-attack-we-shot-until-they-fell/0000018c-25c7-dc03-a9ec-3dff4f720000

For those who are unaware, the soldier who killed Castleman is a member of the Hilltop youth, which is a known extremist pro-settler group who want to get rid of all Palestinians in West Bank. The soldier had actually been interviewed prior to this and stated that he was really excited to "check that box", ie kill a Palestinian for the first time.