04-16-2004, 10:53 PM
If you run the numbers, it means that 20% of the people killed by Israelis are children, while 11% of the Israelis killed are children. Palestinians have killed less, of course, because 1) no real country, government, or standing army to provide weaponry, intel, etc 2) extremely hard to get into Israel.
The two groups target the enemy in different ways. Palestinians bomb buses, night clubs, and cafes. The favored weapon is the suicide bomb. Now, these people arent going to walk into schools or places where children are, because, well, they really wouldnt kill too many people, too much of a risk of getting found out before the operation could suceed. The places they do bomb tend to be rich in adult targets. Nightclubs, buses, cafes. They have a low amount of children in these places. If they had begun to bomb apartment buildings, maybe they would have more children in their kill totals.
Now, for the Israelis. This is a government with extremely good intel on their opposition. They usually know exactly where the enemy is. If you were a terrorist, and you were targeted for death, how could you use your death to make the other side look like the bad guy?? By surrounding yourself with children and families. When Israel is on the news for striking back, they usually prefer missles to a targeted location. These locations tend to be apartment buildings, or areas where families live. The Palestinian terrorists are not going to live in their own terrorist village, away from the city. Instead, they surround themselves with their families, and other families, so that when Israel strikes, they have a better chance of killing more civilians, thus fueling the fire and getting more people on the side of Palestine.
Yes, Israel must do what it can to limit death. But, Palestinians are sick people, and they will use the deaths of their own people just to move foward their own cause.
The two groups target the enemy in different ways. Palestinians bomb buses, night clubs, and cafes. The favored weapon is the suicide bomb. Now, these people arent going to walk into schools or places where children are, because, well, they really wouldnt kill too many people, too much of a risk of getting found out before the operation could suceed. The places they do bomb tend to be rich in adult targets. Nightclubs, buses, cafes. They have a low amount of children in these places. If they had begun to bomb apartment buildings, maybe they would have more children in their kill totals.
Now, for the Israelis. This is a government with extremely good intel on their opposition. They usually know exactly where the enemy is. If you were a terrorist, and you were targeted for death, how could you use your death to make the other side look like the bad guy?? By surrounding yourself with children and families. When Israel is on the news for striking back, they usually prefer missles to a targeted location. These locations tend to be apartment buildings, or areas where families live. The Palestinian terrorists are not going to live in their own terrorist village, away from the city. Instead, they surround themselves with their families, and other families, so that when Israel strikes, they have a better chance of killing more civilians, thus fueling the fire and getting more people on the side of Palestine.
Yes, Israel must do what it can to limit death. But, Palestinians are sick people, and they will use the deaths of their own people just to move foward their own cause.