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The intention of this page is not to show how brutal other countries are when it comes to war. The intention is to show how GENTLE Israel is when it comes to war. Considering that Arab men and women are blowing themselves up within Israel (which is something America, Russian and other countries didn't have to deal with), Israel has the right to fight back. All these comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany are outlandish - there were 6 million Jews killed at the hands of the Nazis in 6 years. The Jews did nothing to deserve this punishment. About 3000-3500 Arabs, many armed and dangerous, have been killed at the hands of the Israelis and by their own hand (in the case of suicide bombers, who do not really deserve to be treated as a "Palestinian casualty"), over the last 50 or so months. To even compare the two situations is ludicrous. Check out the following numbers.
GULF WAR
- More than 1,200,000 civilians in Iraq have died since the start of the Gulf War, when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 (Source: United Nations and Iraq).
- An estimated 100,000 Iraqi soldiers died during Operation Desert Storm between January 17, 1991 and February 28, 1991 (Source: News Reports).
http://www.ngwrc.org/Facts/index.htm
National Gulf War Resource Center
Iraq: Original figures listed 100,000 Iraqi military dead, but more recent estimates place Iraqi dead at 20,000 military and 2,300 civilian.
United States: 148 killed in action, 458 wounded. Also, 121 Americans died through non-combat incidents.
http://www.historyguy.com/GulfWar.html
CHECHNYA
Chechnya declared independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In a move that looked as though Russia wished to show the world it could also do what the US did to Iraq, it attacked Chechnya. The 1994-96 war left 80,000 casualties.
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Chechnya.asp
http://www.zmag.org/bulletins/pbalk.htm
Balkan Stats
Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist
BALKAN STATS I
FROM A COLUMN BY TONY SNOW: Key members of the United States Senate sat slack-jawed through a confidential briefing last Thursday from the Clinton administration foreign-policy team. ~~ After the foreign-policy wise men asserted that the United States has a moral imperative to stop the murderous Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, one senator asked: How many Albanians have Milosevic's troops massacred this year? The president's emissaries turned ashen. They glanced at each other. They rifled through their papers. One hazarded a guess: "Two thousand?" No, the senator replied, that was the number for all of last year. He wanted figures for the last month - or even the year to date, since the president had painted such a grisly picture of genocide in his March 24 address to the nation. ~~ The senator pressed on. How often have such slaughters occurred? Nobody knew. As it turns out, Kosovo has been about as bloody this year as, say, Atlanta. You can measure the deaths not in the hundreds, but dozens. (I'm not trying to deny Milosevic's brutality here; only to provide some comparisons.) More people died last week in Borneo than have expired this year in Kosovar bloodshed - more died in a single Russian bomb blast; in a single outburst of violence in East Timor; in a single day in Rwanda. China has been bloodier this year.
BALKAN STATS II
--Estimated number of persons killed in Iraq due to American-led sanctions: over 1,000,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in the Sudan over the past 15 years: 1,500,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Rwanda over the last five years: 500,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Chechnya: 80,000
--Estimated number of people dying each day around the world because of lack of water, clothing, shelter, food or medicine: 100,000
--Estimated number of people in the world who go to bed hungry: 800,000,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Kosovo last year: 2,000
BALKAN STATS III
--Estimate of new households watching CNN thanks to its war coverage: 472,000
BALKAN STATS IV
--Cost of America's 21 B-2 bombers: $42 billion
--Value of Yugoslavian GDP: $43 billion
--UN budget as a percentage of the Pentagon budget: 5%
Vietnam war
Total 58,148 23.11 years Vietnamese - http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.htm
Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatx.htm
Wars in Israel
In human terms, the War of Independence was Israel's costliest war. More than 6,000 Israelis were killed and 15,000 wounded. It was one of the few instances when Israel faced almost equal forces on the other side: 35 to 45 thousand Israeli soldiers faced 42 to 54 thousand in the combined Arab armies. Although the Arab forces were marginally better equipped than the IDF, neither side employed tanks or planes in large numbers. The war was not characterized by a definite chronology or a marked beginning and end. Instead, it consisted of 39 separate operations, fought from the borders of Lebanon to the Sinai Peninsula and Eilat. Virtually the entire Jewish population of Palestine, then numbering 650,000 people, was mobilized in order to meet the coordinated assault of five regular Arab armies, in addition to Palestine's 1,000,000 Arabs.
Six day war
The IDF Southern Command lost 338 soldiers, sixty-three tanks were destroyed, and a further sixty-nine were damaged.
Altogether
19,109 fallen soldiers - http://www.sympatya.co.il/memorial.htm
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