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With few exceptions, reporters, commentators, and analysts unquestioningly accept the casualty statistics given by Gazas Hamas-controlled medical authorities, who ascribe all deaths to the IDF. We have never seen so much as a glimpse of killed or wounded fighters. Analysis of casualty details released by Qatar-based Al Jazeera indicate that so far most of those killed in Gaza have been young men of fighting age, not women, children or old people. All Palestinian civilian casualties in this conflict result ultimately from Gaza terrorists aggression against Israel, and Hamass use of human shields — the most important plank of Hamass war-fighting policy. So are you going after innocent civilians or is it incompetence Colonel Lerner? asks the interviewer, her face contorted with a contempt apparently reserved only for Israelis. Such shrill disrespect hurled at an American or British officer would alienate viewers, and, at an Arab commander, provoke accusations of racism. This line of questioning – repeated across the networks on a daily basis – betrays a naïve and uncomprehending willingness to believe, and encourages viewers to believe, the absurd notion that the Israel Defence Force [IDF] is commanded and manned from top to bottom by psychopathic baby-killing thugs. Gazas Civilian Casualties: The Truth Is Very Different by Richard Kemp . August 3, 2014 at 5:00 am gatestoneinstitute.org/4570/gaza-civilian-casualties
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:47:18 +0000

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