Gaza “genocide”: By the numbers

There are some interesting facts in this excellent column in the Jerusalem Post, which calls for the end of the West’s proxy war against Israel. The author calls UNRWA’s support of the Palestinians the problem:

THE CURRENT situation can only get worse. Israel is being pushed into a corner. Gazan teenagers have no future other than war. One rocket master killed is immediately replaced by three young men for whom a martyr’s death is no less honorable than victory. Some 230,000 Gazan males, aged 15 to 29, who are available for the battlefield now, will be succeeded by 360,000 boys under 15 (45% of all Gazan males) who could be taking up arms within the coming 15 years.

As long as we continue to subsidize Gaza’s extreme demographic armament, young Palestinians will likely continue killing their brothers or neighbors. And yet, despite claiming that it wants to bring peace to the region, the West continues to make the population explosion in Gaza worse every year. By generously supporting UNRWA’s budget, the West assists a rate of population increase that is 10 times higher than in their own countries. Much is being said about Iran waging a proxy war against Israel by supporting Hizbullah and Hamas. One may argue that by fueling Gaza’s untenable population explosion, the West unintentionally finances a war by proxy against the Jews of Israel.

And indeed, the West is funding Palestinian terror against Israel, and has been for decades. UNRWA has terrorists on its payroll, and UNRWA aid means that Hamas can channel money into weapons and explosives instead of running Gaza.

But in the midst of the author’s points are these facts that can be used to counter all the idiotic anti-Israel arguments you see. For instance, the actual number of deaths in all of Israel’s wars: 40,000 Arabs.

In the six decades since Israel’s founding, “only” some 62,000 people (40,000 Arabs, 22,000 Jews) have been killed in all the Israeli-Arab wars and Palestinian terror attacks. During that same time, some 11 million Muslims have been killed in wars and terror attacks – mostly at the hands of other Muslims.

Compare that with their own internecine warfare:

Lebanon (150,000 dead in the civil war between 1975 and 1990) or Algeria (200,000 dead in the Islamists’ war against their own people between 1999 and 2006)

On the “genocide” of the Gazans:

Between 1950 and 2008, Gaza’s population has grown from 240,000 to 1.5 million.

As someone else said somewhere: Worst. Genocide. Ever.

On the famous Muslim generosity to their Palestinian brothers:

UNRWA is benevolently funded by the US (31%) and the European Union (nearly 50%) – only 7% of the funds come from Muslim sources.

When you look at these facts, you realize why I keep hammering on the double standard that Israel is being held to. The excuse of “occupation” doesn’t wash, because Gaza was under Egyptian control until 1967, and nobody ever called for an independent Palestinian state there and in the West Bank—until long after Israel took control of the territories.

In the meantime, the numbers prove it: The world has a bad case of Israel Derangement Syndrome.