Israel bombing shit..
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- GeorgesII0
an incredibly detailed article from mondoweiss,
this is what journalism should be, not twittter rehashing like msm has been doing
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/di…"...If we borrow the IDF’s claim that more than 12,000 rockets have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years (which I dispute later), we get a kill rate of less than 0.217%. Thus in order to secure a single kill, we should expect to fire about 500 rockets. However, if the goal is to specifically kill Jews rather than foreign workers and Palestinian laborers, then it gets harder. Only 21 Jews have been killed by this method, bringing the kill rate down to 0.175%.
If this sounds disturbing or even anti-Semitic, note that I am just testing the argument of the current Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, who, during Operation Cast Lead, co-wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that the Gaza rockets and mortars were “more than a crude attempt to kill and terrorize civilians—they were expressions of a genocidal intent.”..."
- very good point Georges!utopian
- claims of "genocidal intent" are ridiculous. If that was the intent gaza would suffer thousands of civilian casualtiesadded_valium
- +remember that terror aims to terrorize - not to kill all your enemies. this effect is achieved even with low kill ratesadded_valium
- Then I guess, the people of gaza are living in pure terror then, can they travel, go to school, enjoy a semi normal life?GeorgesII