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May 21, 2008
Intrafrada: Welcome to Gruesome Gaza
Preparing the next “image” for Gaza's popular pastime.
Obviously, all the fault of the Zionist enterprise, code for: Jooz.
A popular pastime in Gaza is swapping gruesome footage of dead or dying victims of the Strip's incessant violence.
The images used to be almost exclusive legacies of clashes with Israeli forces but last year that changed. Now being far more keenly traded are snapshots of Palestinian fratricide, gruesome images taken by "militia-cams' that record scenes for posterity.
Spend any time near the emergency ward of Gaza's Shifa Hospital and security staff or ward workers will offer a look at their mobile phones, which they'll quickly switch to video mode to show images of victims of intra-Palestinian clashes being wheeled in agony from ambulances.
Sit in a town square for more than five minutes and you'll be quickly encircled by youths clamouring to outdo each other with images of death and mayhem.
A veritable library of the "intrafada" now exists in Gaza among militias and clans. Most were added during 2007, when the numbers of intra-Palestinian deaths jumped by 800 per cent — from 55 to 439 — almost all of the deaths in Gaza.
Last year was, by any measure, a revolutionary year in Palestinian politics. More than at any time in the previous two decades, the two most dominant political blocs were willing to bid for influence through the barrels of their Kalashnikovs.
Another factor that contributed to the violence, however, was a creeping radical Islamicisation — a small but growing number of youths in Gaza hitching themselves to an al-Qa'ida world view that pitches them against the rest of the Strip and renders, as fair game to be killed, anyone seen as acting "un-Islamicly'.
A spate of so-called honour-killings of women accounted for about 25 per cent of the body count — far higher than any of the years before.
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I just noticed that Soccer Dad also covers this story, but he provides some invaluable links which reveal that this gruesome behavior in Gaza has ample precedent in the fratricide-ridden Arab world. What's most shocking is that the Gazans really do blame the Israelis for their own barbaric behavior. A refusal to take responsibility for one's own actions is a sure sign of an immature mind, a degraded society.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at May 21, 2008 10:17 AM
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Elder of Ziyon found a picture a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Posted by: soccer dad at May 21, 2008 01:02 PM
Soccer Dad:
The caption would read something like this: “We are going to torture you, then murder you. But don't worry, the Zionists are making us do it. The Jooz are the root causes of our savagery.”
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at May 21, 2008 01:37 PM
I'll just stick with the theme of my reply in the AF officer thread, it's the same :
Estimates of population in Gaza are over 1 million, to 1.5 million, and here we have the "terrible atrocity" of what - the increase from 55 for one years toll - to 439 .
That's out of 1-1.5 million.
Sorry, it's just not convincing that it's a gruesome battle scourging the streets...
In fact, 439 is barely over one per for the 365 days in a year, so we're talking barely over 1 death a day.
Of course, in the modern touchy, feely, stark sensationalistic, otherwise "boring" and Hollywood Movie mindset of the general public and all reporting, it is, no doubt, a tremedously bloody and murderous carnage rate... "oh gawd the carnage, oh the humanity "...
No, not really... what is really going on is risk aversion... the "warring" parties can barely muster one dead enemy a day - in fact, they can't even both kill one of eachother a day... the numbers fall short of 365x2.
Sorry, if there is one thing modern society needs to counter the terribly effective emotionally charged trash fed to the masses today, it is a bit a common sense, and a MATH CHECK.
Let's see, there's about 300 million in the USA, and same year, 2007, there were about 1.5 million murderous abortions. That's one in 150 dead.
Is 439 out of 1-1.5 million anywhere near 1 of 150 dead ? NO, it's only about 1 in 2,800.
Sorry, we have a bigger "war" here, with more as a percentage of population and about 20 times more as a percentage murdered every year - and I haven't even added any other traditionally accepted "murder" stats.
I just guess it's nice to hear about the horrid, horrid, all encompassing war raging and raging on somewhere on the other side of the globe. Boy is it nice to be here after hearing that.
Risk aversion. They're good at it in the Gaza Strip - very, very risk averse, very much filled with "rotting officer ranks" - who can't get any job of war done - obviously.
Posted by: Silicondoc at May 22, 2008 12:40 AM