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October 26, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/evelyn-gordon/377631

WikiLeaks and the Gaza War

(Commentary) Evelyn Gordon - The New York Times tucked a remarkable statistic into an article on WikiLeaks' latest document dump, one with ramifications for the ongoing delegitimization campaign against Israel: for most of the last century, the normal civilian-to-combatant wartime fatality ratio has been 10:1. If civilians routinely account for 90% of all casualties in modern warfare, why is the world up in arms about the civilian casualty rate in last year's Israel-Hamas war in Gaza - which was markedly lower (39%, according to the IDF)? Judged against the global norm, the IDF has actually been unusually successful at minimizing civilian casualties.

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