I've never been there, but wow, some crazy numbers there.
GFinn, do you dispute the accuracy of any of the numbers there?
I have been in Israel and I know bunch of military personnel which were there as UK peacekeepers at the sixties. It is a fact that extremist on both side are just about fuc*king nuts, but if you ask me, Palestinians are just apes. Anybody who is willing to carry a suicide bomb to blow up some civilians, can't be anything but mentally ill, and if there is anybody to blame about that, it is their spiritual leaders. I was a quest of their sniper guild, so I did have an opportunity to see some real action; I was overwhelmed about their professional attitude on the job, and their skills. In any situation what comes by, their snipers were ice cold, and they just pick some known agitator from the crowd, and put the bullet in his knee. They don't even shoot to kill, all what they want to do is immobilize those bastards, and by that end their authority to the crowds. Anyway, I don't see any point to try to argue about those figures, because everybody there have their own truth to spread around the Internet. Palestinians, who have adopt a role of the victim in this play, have plenty of supporters, just because the opposite is Jew nation. Even all old Nazis are in Palestinians side, not because they love them, but because they hate Jews more than them...