• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It also has to be noted that a huge element behind low Israeli casualties is the Iron Dome.

    If you plotted a chart of attempted civilian deaths, you’d get a very very different picture. Personally, I’m not meaningfully less upset at someone who tries to murder me just because they don’t succeed.

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      1 year ago

      Iron dome didn’t come online until 2011 so you can see pre-iron dome on the chart, 2008-2011 and it’s not much different. If you do go out even further like another person posted you’ll see that comparatively high Palestinian deaths characterize this conflict. Before Hamas, before the iron dome Palestiniana have been the overwhelming victims of this conflict.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a group of people with leftover weapons from other anti-Israel forces vs easily the most organized military in the region.