the peace loving Arabs who want nothing more than to sit under their olive trees and recite poetry.

The Arabs are the new Indians. Y'know, those pastoral tribes who first learned about war from the paleface.

Kishke:

Oh yeah, The Apache, the Commanche, etc. really peace-loving bunch. If they didn't fight with each other they'd pick a fight with the moon.

Thanks for the link.

Just to clarify, the count is for 500 (now 504) Palestinian Arabs violently killed by each other this year only. My counting methodology is explained here. And I am certain that I have missed some.

Elder:

We are honored to link to you and thanks so much for your important work.

Shame, shame, shame on all the so-called human rights organizations who willfully ignore Arab on Arab violence. They are, quite clearly, a bunch of racists. Only racists believe that such lives are not worth keeping track of. And only Jew-haters count only Israeli/Jewish defensive violence when Muslim violence is random and far more pervasive.

Oh, and your butcher's bill must be low: so-called honor killings occur in the shadows. How many young girls with throats slit are buried in the moonlight, dumped in garbage fields, or buried in shallow graves? No one really knows but the uncounted Muslim murderers.

I don't think that this is really a liberal media conspiracy issue as much as it is a general lack of knowledge on the part of the general public. As far as I can tell Fox News has not reported much on this issue either. However, it is extremely disturbing and gives more credence to President Bush's words that a “a Palestinian state…needs to be politically and economically viable."

I hope that peace keepers and many more Palestinian human rights organizations step in to abate the killings of the Palestinian people and to help stop the violence directed toward Israel (and hence stop the excessive retaliation of Israel against the Palestinians).

I believe that with a stable Palestinian state the sentiment of revulsion toward Israel will decrease and with that the violence will also decrease.

These are just some of my own thoughts to try and counter the anti-muslim/Palestinian mentality presented by this blog. Believe me, I think that Israel is a great country I just believe that all people should be treated equally and so I am trying to present another side to this debate. With that, I would argue that the mainstream media (in the US, I'm sorry I don't know much about the media in Israel) does not count the number of Israelis killed nearly as much as are mentioned the number of deaths of Israelis killed by Arabs. Here is a link to an article on this topic: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/net-report.html

Sorry, at the end there I meant to say:

I would argue that the mainstream media does not count the number of Arabs killed nearly as much as are mentioned the number of deaths of Israelis killed by Arabs.

What "peace keepers" are going to step into Gaza and stop such grotesque slaughter? Oh, right, the same peace keepers who halted the genocide in Rwanda. The peace keepers who halted the genocide in Cambodia. The peace keepers who are, at this very moment halting the genocide in Darfur.

Maybe the Egyptians? They are right there on the border with Gaza. Fellow Muslims. Oh, wait, they just slaughtered 3 innocent Sudanese refugees who were trying to find sanctuary in Israel from brutal Egyptian indifference.

Did you take notice of that particular body count? Seraphic Secret did.

http://www.seraphicpress.com/archives/2007/08/egyptians_murde.php

Gaza is split into separate cantons; some areas are run by Hamas, others are run by the charming Darwash clan who sell protection, arms, drugs and prostitutes — male and female. Hizbullah also has a nice big footprint in Gaza, as does Al-Quada.

In fact, Gaza is the Palestinian state. It is Judenrein. Not a Jew in sight. The ultimate apartheid state. And look how nicely it functions; it is the homicide capital of the world.

Basically, Gaza is Soprano territory, but infinitely more violent, with endless honor-killings thrown in for good measure. Not to mention the endless clan feuds which are out of control.

Israeli retaliation is restrained and aimed against ticking bomb terrorists who are about to mount homicide operations against civilian targets. This is called national self-defense.

In fact, Americans well know what is going on, and they are rightly repulsed by the barbarism and casual lack of regard for life that infects every corner of the Arab controlled territories. Thus an overwhelming number of common sense Americans support Israel.

It is folly to treat all people equally. There is a world of differences between a good person and a bad person. If you treat all people the same, well then, you erase morality.

The world is famous for its lip service.

The phrase to treat all people equally is meant more on the basis of groups of people, eg Palestinian vs Israeli. I did not mean it in the context of an individual that has committed heinous crimes against civilians.

UN Peacekeepers can make a difference, though they have failed quite a bit as well. Look at the successes in the Congo, with the Irish Republican Army, Liberia, East Timor, etc. Soon, hopefully, peacekeepers will help curb the problems in the Sundan, and Darfur.

Yes, there are problems with the world but there are ways to help fix those problems and bringing more attention to the problem of Palestinian on Palestinian murder in Gaza is one way to start. You are right, Palestinian Gaza is the definition of apartheid, which is problem that should be changed. One way to change it is to stabilize the area by establishing a government that is willing to cooperate with Israel (I know it will be extremely difficult to do) and give the people control of their own land as well as the resources to do that, including peacekeepers.

Gaza is occupied by several Muslim factions but that does not, by any definition, mean it is a stable state of it's own. I said that they should have their own stable state, not an apartheid state.

Avi:

I have no idea what successes you are referring to by US peace-keepers in the Congo, The IRA, Liberia, East Timor. Congo is riven by civil war of epic proportions and every border state is invading Congo in order to contain the violence. Liberia is one of the most violent, dysfunctional African states. East Timor is a toxic brew of separatist Marxist butchers who have perfected female homicide bombing. In fact, they invented it. The IRA have called a truce on their own accord. Nothing to do with any peace keepers. In fcat, UN peace keepers are best known for their dreadful record of child rape, looting and corruption. No blue helmets have ever halted any significant violence — anywhere.

As for Gaza, there was far less violence when Jews were living on their tiny patches of soil. But their presence was considered unacceptable to Muslim sensibilities and 9,000 Jews were expelled by other Jews. Since then, Gaza has descended into a world of Malthusian chaos. The Arabs have had ample opportunity to create a stable state, but have chosen to create the state they live in. This is called free will. The Arabs elected Hamas, I see no reason why they cannot solve their own problems as any mature political people should. G-d knows they have received billions in foreign aid, not to mention billions from the UN. In fact, more foreign aid than any other refugee group in history. And where has it all gone? Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island bank accounts, and Kalachnikovs. Nothing for a true infrastructure.