The "2nd Intifada"-An Engineered Tragedy

Sayeret Duvdevan, Freitag, 26. September 2003, 20:37 (vor 7902 Tagen)

Almost 1900 Palestinians have been killed since
the start of the «al-Aqsa Intifada«, compared to
almost 700 Israelis. Numbers like these are used
to create an image of lopsided slaughter, with
Israel cast as the villain. But such numbers
distort the true picture: They lump combatants in
with noncombatants, suicide bombers with innocent
civilians, and report Palestinian «collaborators«
murdered by their own compatriots as if they had
been killed by Israel.

More meaningful figures show that Israel is
responsible for some 733 Palestinian noncombatant
deaths, while Palestinians have killed 546 Israeli
noncombatants. Over 54 percent of the Palestinians
killed were actively involved in fighting - and
this does not include stone-throwers or
«unknowns«. And Palestinians are directly
responsible for the deaths of at least 253 of
their own number - more than one out of every
eight Palestinians killed.

On the Israeli side, 80 percent of those killed
have been noncombatants. While Israelis account
for about 27 percent of the total «Intifada«
fatalities, they represent over 43 percent of the
noncombatant victims.

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