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From:  Watchman77    7/17/2002 4:45 am  
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TerrorPetition.com Update
17 July 2002

"SKEWING THE DEATH TOLLS"

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As Israel reels from yesterday's terror attack near Emanuel, the media
resorts to the old scoreboard technique of reporting that "1,500
Palestinians have been killed, compared to about 550 Israelis."

TerrorPetition.com protests this method of reporting casualties, which
makes no distinction between civilians and armed combatants, it lumps
suicide bombers with their innocent civilians, and it reports Palestinian
"collaborators" murdered by their own compatriots as if they had been
killed by Israelis.

A new comprehensive study by the International Policy Institute for
Counter-Terrorism (ICT) reveals some startling trends by breaking the
death tolls down into sub-segments -- e.g. age, sex and combatant status.

The study shows that while the majority of Palestinian deaths in the
conflict are combatants, Israeli fatalities are 80 percent noncombatants.

Researchers also found that Palestinians are directly responsible for the
deaths of at least 185 of their own number -- one out of every eight
Palestinians killed in the conflict thus far. (In the previous wave of
Palestinian violence during the late 1980s, about 800 Palestinians were
killed by other Palestinians as "suspected collaborators" -- amounting to
about one-third of the total death toll.)

ICT researchers also found that the proportion of women in the Israeli
death toll is about 30 percent. By contrast, Palestinian fatalities are
overwhelmingly 95 percent male. All total, 61 Palestinian females have
been killed, compared to 160 Israeli females.

Another great disproportion exists amongst noncombatants aged 40 and over,
where 154 Israelis have been killed, compared to 69 Palestinians.

The ICT report is an excellent and thorough statistical analysis, complete
with comparative charts and graphs. TerrorPetition.com recommends that you
refer editors to this report, and encourage them to list casualty figures
more accurately.

The full ITC report is online at:
http://www.ict.org.il/researchreport/researchreport.htm

A shorter summary version is at:
http://www.ict.org.il/researchreport/projectsummary.htm

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Unfair reporting of the casualty count has long been a thorn in the side
of media watch groups. Scores of Palestinians have been wounded by
Palestinian-perpetrated bus bombings. Other Palestinians have been killed
or wounded while making bombs which detonated prematurely. Other
Palestinian deaths were later discovered to be due intra-Palestinian
crime-related activity, or even to traffic accidents.

Last year, The New York Times published an illustrated graph, comparing
Jewish deaths and Arab deaths in the conflict. Many readers wrote to
complain that the graph was misleading, and the response from Bill Borders
of The Times was surprisingly curt and dismissive: "The graphs are correct
because everyone that they count as dead is in fact dead. All of them."

Teen Newsweek, a magazine distributed to middle school students across
America, published a chart illustrating the number of Palestinian and
Israeli children killed since 1987. The Palestinian numbers, represented
in bright red, many times exceed Israeli losses, shown in a less visible
yellow. There is no explanation of circumstances how these children died.
The implication is that there is equivalency -- even though the
Palestinian children were killed while attempting martyrdom in the context
of violent attacks on Israeli forces, while the Israeli children were
killed while sitting on a public bus or in a cafe, blown up by a
Palestinian suicide bomber.

Some media outlets simply have a hard time counting. A recent BBC article
featured a photo of a burned-out Israeli bus, with the caption: "Suicide
attacks have killed dozens of Israelis." Shouldn't that be "hundreds"?
http://honestreporting.com/a/r/254.asp


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