Israel and Palestine » By the numbers

The numbers show the military one-sidedness of the Israel-Gaza/Palestinian conflict.  There is obviously a `we bomb them because they bomb us' element.  The way out?  Israelis - at least a voting majority - are convinced that there is no way out - that `they hate us because we are Jews', etc.  I do not accept the "because" in that view.  I think it begins and continues because `you took our land'.  
Can Palestinians reach the point of "I accept that you took our land.  Now let us make peace - let us keep what you took 50 years ago and you keep what you took 70 years ago".  If Israel really offered that I believe that peace could be enforced and that the unrelenting enemies could be contained.  The principal obstacle to that seems to be that Israelis who think they are entitled to take more Palestinian land control the elected government of Israel. - GWC
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The Israel Defense Forces do not target civilians. Hamas targets Israel. And yet…

Number of Israelis killed by fire from Gaza between January 1st 2012 and November 11, 2012:1
(Source: Wikipedia)

Number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli fire during the same period: 78(Source: United Nations)

Number of Israelis killed by fire from Gaza, November 13th-19th 2012: 3(Source: press reports)

Number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli fire, November 13th-19th: 95(Source: IDF) …

Total number of Israelis killed by rocket, mortar or anti-tank fire from Gaza since 2006: 47(Source: Wikipedia. This is disputed; another source says 26)

Number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli fire from April 1st 2006 to July 21st 2012: 2,879
(Source: United Nations)

The whole tragically long list is at The Economist.

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