2/25 Extra: Israelis, Palestinians, Death

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Originally posted by node
Does anyone know the death tolls of each side? As far as I'm aware since Israel is better armed thanks to Jewish-Americans they tend to kill a lot more Palestinians for every Israeli killed.

There was a website somewhere that kept track of the mideast death toll. I believe for the last twelve months, roughly 4 Palestinians died for every dead Israeli. (May have been on indymedia.org, I will try to find that site again, though, so don't take my word as gospel)

Naturally, this does not include any of the hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned because they might, in some way, be associated with terrorist activities, some of whom will never be seen again. (trial or lawyer not allowed, of course) As you probably know, torture of civilian prisoners is widely practiced and legal in Israel.

The difference between the death tolls is that the Israeli one is inflicted mostly by semi-autonomous underground terrorist organizations, whilst the Palestinian death toll is mostly caused by Israeli armed forces.

Not that you will ever find out anything about the real death toll, though. The media focuses almost exclusively on those barbaric Palestinian attacks. Murderers, the lot of them.

Let's hope that cuddly teddybear Ariel Sharon sorts out that ugly nasty terrorist Arafat! (he has links to those Al-whatever people!)

<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/">Read</a>.
<a href="http://www.indymedia.org/">Weep</a>.