Anyway, some more history to consider: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-11-17/ty-article/.p...
Credulity is boundless, even (especially) in this world of open information warfare. Messages that require side-channels and discrimination with intentionally limited information are guaranteed to be misperceived and likely to have harmful memetic impact.
Agreed though, earnestness is one of our most urgent shortages.
The source is one of the biggest Israeli newspapers, by the way.
I think that's a bit misleading. Per Wikipedia, it has a ~5% readership, as opposed to the bigger papers that have a ~22% readership. It is one of the older and most established papers though, that is true.
Anecdotally, I don't think Haaretz is very widely read among the "average" populace, though I think it has a lot of cachet in intellectual (and of course Leftist) circles.
The world has been watching for over 2 years the atrocities occurring in Gaza and Israel and its people have has lost its credibility to its victimhood on the world stage.
This article is simply 1 extra reporting on a million of Israel’s offenses in the name of terrorism.
We do need to really consider the source of the information. War is often filled with propaganda and lies, that's just how it is, that's part of war, propaganda. I think we need to look at Israel's long history of humanitarianism, and look at Palenstine's history of terrorism, to get an idea as to who is right and who is wrong here. My belief if the article is a piece of fiction, a hit piece.