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“About 300 of the more than 670 Palestinians killed so far are civilians, according to Palestinian and U.N. figures. Of those killed, at least 130 are children age 16 and under, says the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which tracks casualties.”
I am quoting from “Israel conditionally welcomes cease-fire proposal” as reported by IBRAHIM BARZAK and MATTI FRIEDMAN on the January 7, 2009 of The Huffington Post. A military operation causing almost half of the casualties among civilians, and one third of these civilian casualties being among children, could difficulty be considered a successful operation by any military planner in his sane mind. Either this military operation has been planned by criminally incompetent buffoons or, what is more likely, it was designed from the beginning as a massive retaliation and collective punishment against the population of Gaza.
The supporters of the Israeli aggression may always argue that ‘the terrorist hide among the civilian population’, an explanation that I strongly doubt for reasons too long to explain now, but the truth is that these ‘metrics’, as the military analysts would say, begin to remind me to those of the Warsaw Ghetto when the Wehrmacht crushed the uprising. The latter is said by someone who grew as a Zionist.
