Interview: Questioning the 'Palestinian' casualty figures
This is a fascinating interview with Brigadier General (Res.) Zvika Fogel, a former commander of the IDF's southern district. Note what he says about that school in which 45 kids were supposedly killed and how one mortar shell could not have done that much damage - unless the school was being used as a munitions storage facility.Let's go to the videotape.
Anyone else wondering why the IDF took 'credit' for 1300 killed in Operation Cast Lead? Just because the media reports that number as fact doesn't mean that the IDF and Israel have to accept it.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:28 PM
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Israel nor the media actually know for a fact how many on the enemy side were killed and how many were civilians. It still bears repeating here for emphasis that not a single Palestinians would die if Hamas' objective was not jihad agsinst Israel.
Now we have evidence that no IDF fire hit the UNRWA school: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-israeli-fire-hit-unrwa-school.html
I've blogged about this before. The IDF is claiming that it killed 1300 of whom 200 - 250 were civilians. (I think.) That means that over 80% of those killed were terrorists and that they killed over 1000 Hamas fighters. Doesn't that make Hamas's claims of victory seem hollow. Also, as Edward Luttwak pointed out to maintain a kill rate that high, Israel almost certainly had to have had help on the ground. By pushing the higher number - which may be true - the IDF is letting Hamas know that its grip on power is more tenuous than its leadership will acknowledge.
Hamas will never acknowledge the extent of their losses. Shame is a powerful factor in avoiding to have to deal with reality and Hamas does not want to be shamed before its own people. The Eastern mind works very differently from ours and it doesn't play by Occidental rules of reward and punishment.
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