The real numbers of Israelis killed vs all others

Robert Fisk is one sane voice in the middle of the insanity of the Middle East. How can it be that the 10 Israeli dead since Israel launched its well-scheduled attack on Gaza (lame duck President Bush) get more attention than the hundreds killed and thousands injured from the Palestinians in a few short weeks?

Twenty Israelis dead in 10 years around Gaza is a grim figure indeed. But 600 Palestinians dead in just over a week, thousands over the years since 1948 – when the Israeli massacre at Deir Yassin helped to kick-start the flight of Palestinians from that part of Palestine that was to become Israel – is on a quite different scale. This recalls not a normal Middle East bloodletting but an atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. And of course, when an Arab bestirs himself with unrestrained fury and takes out his incendiary, blind anger on the West, we will say it has nothing to do with us. Why do they hate us, we will ask? But let us not say we do not know the answer.

Read this article. It is very interesting how Mr. Fisk gets the other side, while all other mainstream journalists are just government mouthpieces.