{"id":26467,"date":"2015-09-10T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26467"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:41:06","slug":"some-middle-east-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26467","title":{"rendered":"Some Middle East Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read a lot of the mainstream media, they will tell you that the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East<\/a> is the lack of a Palestinian State. They will conveniently forget to remind you that kindergarten children in the Gaza Strip<\/a> are being trained as martyrs (see kindergarten graduation photo below):<\/p>\n

\"kindergartengraduation2\"<\/a>Would America sponsor a terrorist state on its border?<\/p>\n

When you look at the statistics on the various conflicts in the Middle East, you see a very different picture of Israel<\/a> and its Arab neighbors.<\/p>\n

In October 2007, Front Page Magazine<\/a>\u00a0reported the following:<\/p>\n

This grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts since 1950 numbering about 85,000,000. Of that sum, the deaths in the Arab-Israeli<\/a> conflict since 1950 include 32,000 deaths due to Arab state attacks and 19,000 due to Palestinian attacks, or 51,000 in all. Arabs<\/a> make up roughly 35,000 of these dead and Jewish Israelis<\/a> make up 16,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These figures mean that deaths Arab-Israeli fighting since 1950 amount to just 0.06 percent of the total number of deaths in all conflicts in that period. More graphically, only 1 out of about 1,700 persons killed in conflicts since 1950 has died due to Arab-Israeli fighting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Adding the 11,000 killed in the Israeli war of independence, 1947-49, made up of 5,000 Arabs and 6,000 Israeli Jews, does not significantly alter these figures.)<\/s><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a different perspective, some 11,000,000 Muslims<\/a> have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty years of fighting Israel, or just 1 out of every 315 Muslim fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comments<\/i>: (1) Despite the relative non-lethality of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its renown, notoriety, complexity, and diplomatic centrality will probably give it continued out-sized importance in the global imagination. And Israel\u2019s reputation will continue to pay the price. (2) Still, it helps to point out the 1-in-1,700 statistic as a corrective, in the hope that one day, this reality will register, permitting the Arab-Israeli conflict to subside to its rightful, lesser place in world politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Admittedly, this is not up-to-date information, but considering ISIS, the civil war in Syria<\/a>, and the mischief being done by Iran<\/a>, I suspect the percentage of Muslim deaths at the hands of Muslims has increased–not decreased. Unfortunately, there is now added to that number a large number of Christians being killed by Muslims in the Middle East. In recent years it has become very obvious that Israel is NOT the problem.<\/p>\n

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