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2014-07-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians do not coexist with occupiers: Hamas
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Posted by Fred 2014-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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#1 It has been my experience that you get five or six times as many wounded as you do killed. But wounded can mean that you are just out of it for a couple of days while you heal up enough and then they put you back in. Most wounds are unpleasant but not as bad as all that. You got a mark or two to show in later years. You might have a Purple Heart if someone does the paperwork. I got some gravel shrapnel in the elbow once, but I didn't qualify for a medal for that.

The Vietnamese wanted to give me their third class Medal of Honor for rescuing three of their soldiers who were already dead, but I wrecked a Jeep ( theirs ) and they decided I wasn't really worth it.
Dead and wounded , its a toss up, you never get much from numbers.
Posted by Big Thromoth3646 2014-07-28 08:16||   2014-07-28 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ...you never get much from numbers.

A cogent point, Big Thromoth3646. Or rather, useful information can be gotten from numbers, but one needs to do a good deal of digging underneath the totals. For instance, what is the age and sex distribution of the dead and of the wounded compared to the general population? How do these distributions compare to previous wars involving Israel and in general? Where did the deaths and injuries occur? F'r instance, if many of them took place near Israeli targets, one might suspect fighters defending/occupying the target, or human shields constrained or volunteering to protect sites, etc. But raw numbers mostly tell us that, for whatever reason, people did not flee when advised to by the Israelis.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-28 12:35||   2014-07-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Paleostinians cannot coexist with the occupiers

You don't have to. Ask the Canaanites or Philistines.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-28 16:23||   2014-07-28 16:23|| Front Page Top

#4 So where's he hanging out now? Damascus? Qatar? It sure as shit ain't Gaza.
Posted by tu3031 2014-07-28 19:25||   2014-07-28 19:25|| Front Page Top

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