6. My understanding of that special forces IDF culture, as an extreme outsider (filtered through leftist Israeli critics), is that it views the press as generally biased and undeserving of protection. It's similar to how a lot of businesspeople think, like Silicon Valley VCs, but with guns.

7. But what this is not about is the reporting. The soldiers don't know or care. They don't speak Arabic; they once went into a Gazan hospital, and as evidence it was used by Hamas, showed a calendar with the word khamis, Thursday; kh and ḥ merged in Hebrew and Israelis sometimes hypercorrect.