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Originally posted by Undertoad
If body counts matter, how about one broken down correctly?
here's that breakdown from Sept. 29 2000- June 22, 2002. Please excuse my lousy formatting.
Age # killed
17 45
16 35
15 39
14 32
13 25
12 10
11 7
10 9
9 5
8 6
7 3
6 3
5 1
4 2
3 2
2 0
1 1
<1 1
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But do we know how many of these people were confirmed to be suicide bombers or about to cause some other danger to society, as opposed to how many just looked like suicide bombers to the people who were doing the shooting.
And why so many 10 years old and younger - 33 children 10 years or less posed a threat ? Yea, ok.
The point I'm trying to make here is that Israel is not blameless, they are not squeaky clean, they are every bit as guilty of attrocities as the Palestinian extremists.
Americans don't often see that though, partly because of the American interests in the area, partly because the Israelies look "westernized" compared to Palestinians, and partly because that is what you have become conditioned to by your government.
Outside of the US we are in a position where we can more clearly see the happenings there, there is less of a spin. We can see that Sharon is pig headed, Arafat is a weakling, Hamas does do some good (along with the bad), and the George Dubya is a complete and utter moron (but you knew that).