true believers can never be wrong, as larry presents some things about reality you won't find on the tv;

Now, to something so awful and terrible I hesitated to post. But, my email exchange with the diehard Zionist the other day convinced me that some truth needs to be told, and graphically so.

Here is what I wrote:

1. If you want to make the proportionality argument then apply it uniformly to the Palestinians as well as the Israelis. The current killing of Palestinians by aerial bombardment, over the last year, exceeds anything done by Israel in the last 70 years. The estimates for number of Palestinian deaths is not from Palestinian sources. It is the Lancet, a British Medical Journal that you know quite well (here is the link — https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext). According to the Lancet:

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1 The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.4

Collecting data is becoming increasingly difficult for the Gaza Health Ministry due to the destruction of much of the infrastructure.5 The Ministry has had to augment its usual reporting, based on people dying in its hospitals or brought in dead, with information from reliable media sources and first responders. This change has inevitably degraded the detailed data recorded previously. Consequently, the Gaza Health Ministry now reports separately the number of unidentified bodies among the total death toll. As of May 10, 2024, 30% of the 35 091 deaths were unidentified.

The fact remains that Palestinians are being killed at a disproportionate rate and that Israeli tactics include the bombing of hospitals, schools, mosques and churches.

Here is that person’s response:........more..........