What are the odds that the Israeli army and their various police forces don't make mistakes?

You hear so much about knife attacks in Israel right now, and to date I've only found one more or less mainstream source questioning this.

I've seen the video they mention, I'm not convinced that it clearly shows soldiers planting a knife. It's a distance video, taken with what, a cell phone? It's hard to see what's going on.

But the thought just sticks in my mind. Sure, if the suspect actually stabbed somebody it's hard to argue with that! But in a situation where some people are going around stabbing others, is it really believable that the soldiers and the cops never mistake a cell phone for a knife, never shoot somebody by accident?

If you told me that was the case in America, I wouldn't believe it, and American cops (and soldiers) don't have the same reasons to be jumpy as Israelis do.

So how should I be interpreting the fact that I never see articles or news about some Palestinian who was shot on suspicion of having a knife or gun, but whoops, turns out that this was a mistake? How suspicious should I be?

Each individual case might be quite correct, but can they really all be? Is this actually possible? (And is it worth bringing this up with most people who are really invested in the Good Guys and Bad Guys scenario they've made up rather than the more complex situation that actual humans are likely to be involved in?)

Fucking a.

Apparently, nobody won the jackpot and it's now over a billion dollars.

Weird publishing decisions strike again!

It's bad enough when I can purchase 2 out of 3 books in a trilogy as an e-book, but the third isn't available.

But what sense does it possibly make to be able to purchase books 2 - 4 on the Kindle, but not the first one? (That'd be The Birchbark House.)

Or this one: A few years back I picked up two books at The Strand - The Key to Rondo and The Wizard of Rondo. Eva really likes those, wanted the third.

The last one was never printed in the United States. It's solely available... as an audiobook. Or in Chinese. In order to get the printed copy, I had to order it over eBay. From Australia.

Now, I can see a publisher printing out the first two books of a trilogy but declining to finish the series if they think there isn't enough money in it. But why oh why would they publish the third as an audiobook but not in print?

What on earth are these people thinking as they make their decisions?

In other news, I recently discovered that The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series is back in print. (But not as an ebook.) Man, I loved those books as a kid. You know, the 80s and 90s was really great for a specialized category of children's literature that you don't see too much of - not too long, kinda weird premise. Even just "not too long" is fading away, and kids books keep getting longer and longer. Which is great for kids who like long books, but no doubt intimidating for slower readers.