Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Proportions

Since September 2000, 121 Israeli children have been killed in the course of the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

In the same period, 779 Palestinian children have been killed.

So far this year, 1 Israeli child has been killed, and 73 Palestinian children.

What does this say about Israeli morality, political, and military policy? Israel is supposed to be the advanced, civilised state, and the Palestinians the nasty, murderous terrorists. This is not the situation reflected by the cold hard statistics.

www.rememberthesechildren.org is a site which tries to record the details of each child killed on either side. If you are religious, you might like to visit the site and say a prayer for the slaughtered innocents (and the potential terrorists). Whether you are religious or not, please circulate the link to raise awareness of the true situation.

Joe McGonagle

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