Death Toll in 3 Years of Mideast Violence

[Resistance]

Times Daily

Here is a breakdown of 3,481 deaths in more than three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The Associated Press reviewed data from the third year of fighting, figures that reveal a 50 percent drop in casualties from the previous year. The numbers are based on information compiled in interviews with relatives, witnesses, doctors and visits to hospital morgues.

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TOTAL: 2,583 on the Palestinian side and 898 on the Israeli side. The Israeli figure includes several foreigners, migrant workers, tourists, students on study-abroad programs and staff of international bodies killed in Palestinian attacks. It also includes at least 43 U.S. citizens, most also holding Israeli citizenship.

The Palestinian figure includes an American peace activist crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home, a British U.N. official killed by Israeli fire during a gunbattle in the West Bank, a German doctor killed by Israeli fire as he tried to help Palestinians wounded when a rocket slammed into their home, several Egyptians killed in Gaza and two journalists - one Italian and the other British - both fatally wounded while working in Palestinian areas.

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[madrchsod]

1. looks like the palestinian

side is losing.the sharonists better get that fence built as fast as possible or they may lose the edge in kills....

[Jim Sagle]

2. The peace fence, making the world safer...one brick at a time.

O8)

[Resistance]

4. does Israel need more Peace Bullets

to continue mowing down innocent victims?

[Resistance]

5. How about more Peace Bulldozers?

[Resistance]

6. Peace Missiles maybe?

[sushi]

7. Yes,

a man of peace needs all that!

"Happy Holidays"

[Gimel]

3. Mass killings

If this term can be applied to this conflict, I propose that it suits the actions of the suicide bombers, who often have killed more than 20 civilians, indiscriminantly, at one time, the highest number being the 29 killed at a Passover sader.

The indiscriminant killing is part of the definition and implication of the term mass or massive. It is non-specific, non-individual targeting.

[lefty_mcduff]

8. Yeah. Changing the term always works.

Makes some unnecessary death acceptable and A-OK, other unneccessary completely unacceptable and thus more horrific.

My fave - collateral damage. Hardly sounds like dead people at all.

Edit - early morning attempt at spelling.

[Resistance]

9. The IDF sure is busy

murdering people