8 palestinians for every 1 israeli
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http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/isr-summary-eng
Killings and attacks by the army
Some 190 Palestinians, including around 50 children, were killed by the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories. Many were killed unlawfully, in deliberate and reckless shootings, shelling and air strikes in densely populated residential areas, or as a result of excessive use of force. Some were extrajudicially executed and others died in armed clashes with Israeli soldiers. Hundreds of others were injured.
Killings and attacks by Palestinian armed groups
Palestinian armed groups killed 41 Israeli civilians, including six children, in suicide bombings, shootings and mortar attacks in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Most of the attacks were carried out by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Fatah, and Islamic Jihad. Nine Israeli soldiers were also killed by Palestinian armed groups, most of them in the Occupied Territories.
that's a 8.33333333:1 ratio for palestinian kids to israeli kids....
at least it's down from 2005
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/isr-summary-eng
The Israeli army killed around 700 Palestinians, including some 150 children, in the Occupied Territories, most of them unlawfully. Many were killed in deliberate as well as reckless shooting, shelling and bombardment of densely populated residential areas or as a result of excessive use of force. Some 120 Palestinians were killed in extrajudicial executions, including more than 30 bystanders, of whom four were children. Others were killed in armed clashes with Israeli soldiers. Thousands of others were injured.
Palestinian armed groups killed 109 Israelis — 67 of them civilians and including eight children — in suicide bombings, shootings and mortar attacks.
even w/ the ratio dropping, how can ppl justify killing so many children? it seems like the only condemnation comes to the palestinians, yet they are having far more children killed!
Killings and attacks by the army
Some 190 Palestinians, including around 50 children, were killed by the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories. Many were killed unlawfully, in deliberate and reckless shootings, shelling and air strikes in densely populated residential areas, or as a result of excessive use of force. Some were extrajudicially executed and others died in armed clashes with Israeli soldiers. Hundreds of others were injured.
Killings and attacks by Palestinian armed groups
Palestinian armed groups killed 41 Israeli civilians, including six children, in suicide bombings, shootings and mortar attacks in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Most of the attacks were carried out by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Fatah, and Islamic Jihad. Nine Israeli soldiers were also killed by Palestinian armed groups, most of them in the Occupied Territories.
that's a 8.33333333:1 ratio for palestinian kids to israeli kids....
at least it's down from 2005
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/isr-summary-eng
The Israeli army killed around 700 Palestinians, including some 150 children, in the Occupied Territories, most of them unlawfully. Many were killed in deliberate as well as reckless shooting, shelling and bombardment of densely populated residential areas or as a result of excessive use of force. Some 120 Palestinians were killed in extrajudicial executions, including more than 30 bystanders, of whom four were children. Others were killed in armed clashes with Israeli soldiers. Thousands of others were injured.
Palestinian armed groups killed 109 Israelis — 67 of them civilians and including eight children — in suicide bombings, shootings and mortar attacks.
even w/ the ratio dropping, how can ppl justify killing so many children? it seems like the only condemnation comes to the palestinians, yet they are having far more children killed!
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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so there's away to kill people lawfully?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
exactly
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/g/god-on-my-side.shtml
I don't understund much about this conflict, well not in a blow by blow historical sense, but to me any country using it's might and power to indiscriminantly kill children, any children, needs to take a long hard look at itself.
*~You're IT Bert!~*
Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
That's a massive oversimplification. As questionable as many of their actions are, Israel can hardly be said by any reasonable person to be on a 'quest to annihilate the Palestinians'. It irritates me that people seem to feel the need to side with their 'team' on this issue. ie if you slant to the left you must support the palestinians and condemn Israel as an evil supressive regime by default, and if you slant to the right the palestinians are by default a bunch of no-good islamic terrorists that Israel has every right to repel from its borders by any means they see fit. Its silly and unconstructive, and I think many people see the whole story as some kind of soap opera or sporting match that they can watch from the comfort of their lounge chairs in the west. The closest this conflict has come to any kind of resolution in recent times is when a western leader (Clinton) took a middle of the road approach and attempted to encourage negotiation between both sides. Picking sides just perpetuates it and doesn't help anyone. Neither does comparing body counts. Would it make the western left happy if the palestinians managed to kill more Israelis and 'even the score'? How would that help the situation?
Speaking of media bias and censorship, in contrast to the yank media, the media in Australia seem to tend to be a little more biased towards the palestinian/arab side, especially on SBS. Maybe its got to do with the relative sizes of our Jewish and Muslim populations, I don't know.
-C Addison
Seems like those on this message board incapable of reasoned debate are now resorting to personal attacks in pm's instead.
Feel free to comment on the above statements.
The little yapper keeps tormenting, and tormenting, then once in a while the big fuckoff crocodile goes CHOMP.
Then the little dog crys victim. Someone needs to finish the job and run over the little yapping dog.
What borders? You mean the borders of the illegally occupied territories? This is what it all comes down to after all. It's not about siding with a team, it's about looking the situation squarely, and impartially in the face. Until Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders they have no right to talk about security, or self-defense. It's as simple as that.
That's a really intelligent analysis of the situation. Thank God there are people like you in the world.
You know, the Nazis thought this way about Jewish partisan groups and the French resistance in World war 2. Some things never change.
Bring it on cause I'm no victim
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Its not as simple as that and you know it. Of course they have a right to talk about security when suicide bombers target civilians in Tel Aviv and Haifa and other coastal towns, which are no where near the 1967 borders, or any other border. They don't have any right to continue to expand settlements into the occupied territories though.
I'm not trying to pretend to be an expert on the situtation or to have the answer, nor do I take a position that supports either side over the other, but I can see that its ridiculous to oversimplify the issue like that.
-C Addison
it depends on how much you understand the situation ... sometimes the complexities are manufactured for the simple purpose of keeping everyone out of the loop ...
There are a lot of them.
Scott there's absolutely no point getting antsy with me over this.
I've already said that I don't understand much about it. But I do see that Israel was formed in the desert after World War 2 for somewhere for the Jews to have a homeland. Unfortunately that didn't please the Arabs. Now who knows who is right or wrong, and frankly who cares? It's history, it's the past. These people need to stop doing what they are doing. All of them. They need to start making plans for a peaceful future. My concern, and my comment was based purely on what I saw on Denton last night. And that is that many god fearing religious Americans are supporting Israel purely because they believe in this "rapture" business and that the end times are coming. I simply cannot see that as a justification for indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Not that I condone the terrorist actions of Palestinian extremists either.
I'm not siding with anyone. No wait!! Actually if I think about it I am. I'm siding with the innocent. Those people that aren't bombing the "other side", those people in either country that aren't allowing their hatred and their need for revenge to overtake their basic humanity. This whole eye for an eye shit, is too futile for words. And I cannot support the slaughter of innocent men, women and children. No matter where they come from. An oversimplification, possibly. Or maybe simple is the best way to go. You don't want anymore violence? Then don't perpertrate it. Simple.
*~You're IT Bert!~*
Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Why does Israel have to withdrawl to those old borders???
By 1967 Israel had already been attacked 2 times in the past 20 years by their Arab neighbors - neighbors who still called for the destruction of their country.
In the months before June 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations Emergency Force from the Sinai Peninsula, increased its military activity near the border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships, and called for unified Arab action against Israel. So in June 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive attack on Egypt's airforce fearing an imminent invasion by Egypt.
In the aftermath, Israel had to take on Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Algeria. That's 7 against 1, and at the war's end, Israel had gained control of eastern Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
So the Arab side lost. In the process they lost some of their land. So how far back in time do you want to go redrawing the map of the world? This has happened from the begining of time! The Palestinians need to get over it if they want to reconcile. You can't start a war and then call foul when your side loses!
exactly
Well said. Of course Palestine will take more casualties since they are the weaker side. They put children on the front lines so of course more Palestinian children will die (it is Palestine's intention).
Were the Jews suicide bombing Nazis? No. So take your anti-semitism somewhere else. Comparing the Jews to Nazis. You don't know anything.
of course it is. they use women and children as shields. this is nothing new in their war tactics.
On a more serious tone, I think that the key word in Byrnzie's post is illegal, as the occupation of the territories are illegal under UN resolutions. Now, it's always possible to claim that the UN should just shut up for once but that would just end the debate. And what the hell, let's just say that the UN represents order and justice in the world, and that the security council is something that has helped, not always efficiently, to prevent huge conflicts. If you want that UN to work you have to obey it's laws.
Far from me the idea of putting words into your mouth but are you actually saying that Palestinians generally like chaos, war and death along with killing children? Kind of like communists? If it's the case it's a stupid way of thinking, always assume that the other side wants dignity, peace and food (not necessarily in that order) and you'll have a start to stopping this mess.
where are the leaders of palestinian groups supposed to live?
their capital ?
Their statehouse?
Their military bases?
they got nothin'
they live in apartments
so they are accused of "using human shields" when the IDF drops american made 5k lb. bombs on civilians
good for you and your god
god is for idiots and a reasonable justification for stealing someones land , obviously
Bring it on cause I'm no victim
b nice loves pearl jam like ed vedder loves america
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i really can't argue with that one
Bring it on cause I'm no victim
b nice loves pearl jam like ed vedder loves america
I'm not bashing the UN. I think overall it is a good organization. But in this particular instance you have to look a little closer. In the summer of 1967 there was a United Nations Emergency Force on the Sinai Peninsula to prevent a military conflict from breaking out again between Egypt and Isreal. Egypt kicked them out in June, and publicly called for unified Arab action against Israel. So I wouldn't be so quick to call Isreal's actions "illegal", just because the UN says so.
The UN is not an independant entity living in another world. It's policies and laws are dictated by our countries, the resolutions which are voted can always be vetoed by countries of the security council (which includes the usa). So basically, it's not only the UN that said so but a whole lot more countries.
i give you "THE SPEEDY GOLD STAR"
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
violence comes in many forms ... this statement can't be any further than the truth ... and makes a mockery of the suffering that has occured in that region ...
yet, I never hear about these poor children on this site...