10 to 1 Them/Us "death ratio" so far in Israeli Gaza reprisals

My 10 is to 1 Them/US death ratio is specifically the ratio of "Gazans killed in the last 1-2 days" to "Israelis killed from Gaza rockets and mortars in the last 7 years".

My Them/Us was an abbreviation to fit into the headline - I am neither a Palestinian nor an Israeli but simply an anti-racist, humanitarian, agnostic scientist who adheres resolutely to the core messages from the World War 2 Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Roma dead) that wiped my family from the face of Europe - specifically, "zero tolerance for racism", "never again to anyone" and "bear witness".

I take my cue on matters such as the Palestinian Genocide (and the related Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide) from the tragic history of my family under the Nazi Germans and from outstanding humanitarian scholars - rather from genocide-complicit and genocide-ignoring pro-Bush-ite or pro-Zionist mainstream media and politicians.

Thus outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond in his exceptionally important book "Collapse" (Prologue, p10, Penguin 2007 edition), unequivocally refers to the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people."

Very sensible observation, Roan. Below my attempts to put NUMBERS to your point. My 10 is to 1 ratio is the ratio of "Gazans killed in the last 1-2 days" to "Israelis killed from Gaza rockets and mortars in the last 7 years".

According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (see: Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism since September 2000 ) 1,170 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians since 2000.

According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (see: Jewish Terrorism deaths in Mandatory Palestine-Israel - 1920-1999 ), QUOTE: "From 1920 through 1999, a total of 2,500 residents of Mandatory Palestine and, since 1948, the State of Israel fell victims to hostile enemy action; in most cases, terrorist attacks".

Thus, according Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the the total of Jewish victims of "hostile enemy action, in most cases , terrorist attacks" in the period 1920-2008 totalled roughly 1,170 + 2,500 = 3,670.

Turning to another Jewish Israeli organization, B'Tselem (see: B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories ), we find that 4,897 Palestinians have been killed by Jewish Israelis (mostly bu Israeli military) in the period 29.9.2000-30.11.2008 . Taking into account the recent Israeli attacks that caused 225 deaths yesterday and about 10 more this month the Palestinian deaths since September 2000 total 4,897 + 225 + 10 = 5,132. A proportional adjustment to include all deaths in 2000 would yield 5,132 x 108/99 = 5599 or about 5,600 Palestinians killed since 2000.

The "death ratio" of "Palestinians killed by Israelis since September 2000"/"Israelis killed by Palestinians since September 2000" = 5,132/1,170 = 4.4.

However we must also consider non-violent Occupied Palestinian deaths due to deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease due to war criminal Occupier violation of the Geneva Convention which demands supply of life-saving food and medical requisites by the Occupier "to the fullest extent of the means available to it". As outlined in the article this can be estimated from UNICEF data to be about 4,300 annually or 4,300/year x 8.3 years = 35,690 non-violent Occupied Palestinian avoidable deaths since September 2000.

For moral justification of this assessment we can turn to Professor Sir Martin Gilbert, a leading historian of the 20th century, World War 2, the Jewish Holocaust and the effective creator of the race-based State of Israel through the 1944 UK War Cabinet Partition decision, Winston Churchill (see Media Lying over Churchill's Crimes. British-Indian Holocaust" ) who estimates that 1 in 6 of the 5-6 million Jews who died inthe Jewsih Holocaust died from deprivation (see (see: Gilbert, M. (1969) (with Banks, A., cartographer), Jewish History Atlas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London) and Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph, London)).

Accordingly total Occupied Palestinian violent and non-violent avoidable deaths due to Occupation violence and deprivation since September 2000 total 35,690 + 5,132 = 40,822 and for the period September 2000-2008 the Palestinian/Jewish Israel "death ratio" has been 40,822/1,170 = 34.9 i.e. roughly 35 and about 3.5 times that advocated by arch-fiend Adolph Hitler for the 1944 Ardeatine Caves reprisals massacre and indeed about 3.5 times the "enemy civilian deaths"/German military "death ratio" actually "achieved" overall by Nazi Germany in World War 2.

The 1 to 1 ratio Roan speaks of was achieved in WW1.

Thus the "death ratio" of "enemy civilian dead"/"Allied military dead" in World War 1 was 5.2 million/5.7 million = 0.91 was about the same as the ratio of "Allied civilian dead"/"Germany-allied military dead" = 3.7 million/4.0 million = 0.92. However this changed enormously with the transmission of the virulent Spanish influenza (flu) virus around the world in the period 1918-1920 (20-100 million deaths world-wide, an estimated 17 million deaths in British India alone).

In World War 2 there were total military deaths of 25.3 million versus 66.4 million civilian deaths (this figure assuming 35 million violent and non-violent war-related deaths in China and 7 million deaths associated with the Bengal Famine atrocity in British India), with an overall "death ratio" of "civilian deaths"/"military deaths" of 66.4 million/25.3 million = 2.6, about 3 times higher than for World War 1 (excluding the war's end and post-war flu epidemic) (see: Pro-Zionist Media Holocaust Ignoring. UK Guardian Censors Civilian War Dead on Remembrance Day ).

Roan, I would add that even better would be NO conflict at all e.g. by immediate Israeli adherence to the 1968 UN Security Council Resolution 252 that demanded Israeli withdrawal and cessation of land and property seizure (see article for links).

I fully agree, Yosho, that indiscriminate Occupied Palestinian rocket attacks and suicide bombings are barbaric and so is civilian-targetting Israeli air force rocketing and bombing of one of the most densely populated and impoverished places on the planet, the Gaza Strip, the Israeli-enforced Prison for about 1.5 million Occupied Palestinians (about 50% children and 3/4 Women and Children).
Indeed it is evident from the presented statistics that Occupied Palestinian rocket attacks end up killing vastly more Palestinians as a result of barbaric Israeli reprisals.

In countries like the UK, Australia and Israel (as opposed to the Israeli-occupied Holy Land) the homicide rate is about 15 per million per year (it is 56 per million per year in the US; see: United States Crime Rates 1960 - 2007 ).

This means (assuming this figure) that in the State of Israel (population about 7 million) about 15 x 7 = 105 people are killed each year by fellow Israelis literally going "mad" with anger, fear, greed, whatever. The perpetrators are subject to the peaceful course of law involving arraignment, trial and punishment - the israeli airforce is not despatched to bomb Israeli apartments containing alleged wife-bashers or murderers.

However, according to official Israeli statistics quoted in my article, "only" 3 Israelis have been killed on average each year from violence from a tiny minority of "mad" people out of the 4 million abusively occupied, imprisoned and dispossessed Occupied Palestinians by rockets or mortars from Gaza in acts of pointless violence (just like the 105 other murders of Israelis each year by "crazy" Israelis) .

In keeping with the implicit theoretical and de facto violence and racism of the Zionist State of Israel the Israeli response in the last 2 DAYS to 3 annual deaths from rockets/mortars has been airforce bombing of the most densely populated urban area in the world occasioning (so far) 225 deaths (and about 800 injured) - twice the number of Israeli homicides in 2 YEARS and 10 times the number of Israeli deaths from rockets/mortars over the last 8 years..

The fundamental world-wide objection to the policies of the race-based Zionist State of Israel are its violent , deadly, racist policies as exemplified by these shocking statistics.

Using data from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, it is estimated The "death ratio" of "Palestinians killed by Israelis since September 2000"/"Israelis killed by Palestinians since September 2000" = 5,132/1,170 = 4.4.

Using data from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from the UN Population Division it is estimated that the "death ratio" of "violent and non-violent post-invasion Occupied Palestinian excess deaths" /"Jewish "Israeli" violent deaths from hostile enemy action, 1920-2008" = 300,000/3,670 = 82.

Using data from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN Population Division, the "death ratio" of "avoidable post-invasion Occupied Palestinian under-5 infant deaths"/ "violent and non-violent post-invasion Occupied Palestinian excess deaths" /"Jewish "Israeli" violent deaths from hostile enemy action, 1920-2008" = 200,000/3,670 = 54.

Using data from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNICEF, the "death ratio" of "avoidable Occupied Palestinian under-5 infant deaths, September 2000-2008" / "Israelis killed by Palestinians since September 2000" = 8.25 x 2,400/1,170 = 19,800/1,170 = 17.

Using data from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNICEF, the "death ratio" of "non-violent avoidable Occupied Palestinian deaths from deprivation, September 2000-2008" / "Israelis killed by Palestinians since September 2000" = 8.25 x 2,400/1,170 X0.7 = 28,286/1,170 = 24.

By way of comparison, in World War 2 and using data from a Wikipedia summation, entitled "World War II casualties" the "death ratio" of "Jewish children murdered"/"German military deaths" was 1.5 million/5.533 million = 0.27; the "death ratio" of "Jews murdered"/"German military deaths" was 6 million/5.533 million =1.1; the ratio of "ALL civilians killed in WW2"/""German military deaths" was 41.909 million"/5.533 million = 7.6.

Using current media reports and data from a Wikipedia article entitled "List of Qassam rocket attacks" (this data in turn deriving from Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs data), the "death ratio" for "Occupied Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes post-Christmas 2008, SO FAR"/"Israelis killed by rockets and mortars since 2000" = 282/23 = 12.

Arch-fiend Adolph Hitler ordered 10 reprisal executions for every German soldier killed by partisans and his order was translated promptly into the March 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Italy involving a "death ratio" of "Italian prisoners"/"German soldiers" = 335/33 = 10.

The LINKS to these sources are given below.

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs . B'Tselem . UN Population Division . UNICEF . World War 11 Casualties . Ardeatine Massacre. List of Qassam rocket attacks .

For wider context and methodological details also see: Laypersons' guide to counting Iraq deaths ; "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950", G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007 ; Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History", G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2008 ; and 9-11 Excuse for US Global Genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: Millions Dead (9-11 million) in Bush Wars .

Wheel - that is a very sensible question but I do not have the data.

Nevertheless one CAN assess the consequences of deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease in impoverished Third World countries occupied by racist, genocidal Western occupiers .

THUS "annual total excess deaths" (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in such impoverished countries (overwhelmingly from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease) are about 1.4 times the "annual under-5 year old infant deaths" (see: Layperon's guide to counting Iraq deaths ).

Consulting the latest data from UNICEF (see: UNICEF infant deaths statistics ) we find that "annual undeer-5 year old infant deaths" in the war criminal US Alliance-occupied Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories total 3,000, 43,000 and 347,000 .

Accordingly "total annual excess deaths" due to war criminal Occupier non-supply of Genva Convention-demanded life-preserving requisites in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories are
4,200, 60,200 and 485,888, respectively- as compared to ZERO (0) in such impoverished but non-occupied countries such as Cuba, Sri Lanka and Tunisia - and even ZERO (0) in only partially-occupied, occasionally Israel- or US-bombed Syria, resource-poor and impoverished Syria (for data see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" by G. Polya ).

Good questions, Wheel - simply go to the UNICEF website and thence to "Countries" and thence to "Afghanistan" (see: UNICEF statistics on infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan" and you will find, QUOTE: "Annual no. of under-5 deaths (thousands), 2006 327,000".

Of course it is not only infants who die from deprivation due to US Alliance war crimes but the sick , the elderly, peri-natal mothers etc.

A dozen years of research and 2 books later, my estimate is that for impoverished Third World countries that "under-5 infant deaths" are numerically about 0.7 of the "total avoidable deaths from deprivation" i.e. total annual "avoidable deaths" in Afghanistan total 327,000/0.7 = 467,000.

The fundamental reason for this horrendous avoidable death toll in Occupied Afghanistan is war criminal violation of the Geneva Convention by the US Alliance Occupiers - including my own country, look-the-other-way, PC racist , war criminal, climate criminal White Australia - by only permitting a "total annual per capita medical expenditure" in Occupied Afghanistan of $26 (TWENTY SIX DOLLARS) (see WHO: WHO stastics on medical funding in Occupied Afghanistan ) - equivalent to HALF the cost of ONE 5 minute Government-subsidized consultation with a General Practitioner doctor in racist White Australia.

The leaders of the US Alliance responsible for this carnage are war criminals - as are all the people who KNOWINGLY vote for them in these corrupt, racist Murdochracies. The "out" for the Voters is that the racist, lying, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media, politcians and academics simply IGNORE the carnage - which is then out of sight, out if mind in the "democratic Nazi" states of the US, UK, racist White Australia, and complicit NATO countries.