The amazing thing to me in this Infitada is that I think fewer than 1000 Israelis and fewer than 3000 Palestineans have been killed over the past 2-3 years. But if you go back to the 1980s and early 1990s, looking at NYC alone, there were more than 2000 murders per year. Yes there were more people who lived there, but not that many more, and there wasn't a "state of war," at least not officially (some might say that there is a permanent class war, but nevermind that...).
re: "This Intifada has seen what, about 1000 Israelis killed? That's not war. Compare this to WW2, when 12,000,000 people were killed in concentration camps, the vast majority of them over a 3 year period, and it was such a small part of the bloodletting that no one really cared about it until after the war was over. That's about 77,000 per week for 3 long long years." |
