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To: maceng2 who wrote (14263)	12/20/2001 6:18:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I do wonder though why Israel has always kept the "kill ratio" in it's favor during this conflict. It's ratio of Palestinian civilians dead to Israeli civilians dead is 5:1 to 15:1 depending how you argue the figures... Whoa...first question, how many of these dead "civilians" died with guns or bombs in their hands? The answer is, a lot. And plenty of the dead kids have been placed in harm's way quite deliberately, esp. in the first months of the intifada where kids with rocks were backed up by Tanzim militia with guns. Remember, this war is being fought in the press, with pictures of the dead as the weapon. If you examine Palestinian tactics, they are designed to produce a lot of casualties, especially the main tactic of riflemen shooting at armored IDF outposts or tanks. I remember an interview of an IDF solider in an outpost, where he was asked his opinion of Palestinians fighting tactics, and he replied, "As soldiers, they stink, but as kamikazes, they're not bad."