he recounted the anger and desire for vengeance he felt when he saw the video—and how he later reconsidered and regretted those impulses, saying they made him feel “gross and guilty.” But it gave him the kernel of a story.

how magnanimous of him.

The mentioned lynching of the 2 soldiers were after they were arrested in Ramallah during the Intifada. You know, the revolt where IDF soldiers gunned down civilians from helicopters, ran over protestors in military vehicles including children, destroyed houses as collective punishment. In the 2 weeks before the lynching alone 20+ Palestinian children were killed by them.

He's horrified about when the Palestinians killed 2 enemy soldiers on Palestinian land tho. 2 Soldiers who weren't even born there. They were literally Russian immigrants who chose to be settler-colonists and join the Apartheid's army.