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Palestinians v Israel: Some Facts

Sonja Karkar of Women for Palestine spoke on Community radio station 3CR yesterday:

“Operation Autumn Clouds”, the Israeli army called it. How much more
hypocritical can we become when we watch Israeli soldiers cherry pick 1500
unarmed women with sniper guns for trying to protect their fathers,
husbands, sons and brothers besieged in the city’s mosque and see them fall
to the ground - and we do nothing? When we learn of 18 women and children
killed while sleeping in their beds after Israeli tanks repeatedly fired 11
artillery shells into a residential neighbourhood - and we do nothing? No
world leaders are demanding an end to these killing sprees and telling
Israel to get out of Gaza. The silence is bad enough, but when we have our
Prime Minister staunchly supporting Israel’s right to defend itself no
matter how grossly disproportionate or illegal its wholesale bombardment of
a civilian population is to the homemade rockets landing in Israel, we are
parties to the slaughter of Palestinians. And, it is increasing exponentially at an alarming rate. Our silence allows Israel to continue its grisly deeds with
impunity and it is no wonder that the killing is now completely out of proportion
to Israeli deaths (76.2 Palestinians killed for every Israeli)

I would just like to give the listeners an idea of the military hardware being used
in this conflict which shows that Israel has a staggering advantage over a basically
unarmed population under its punishing occupation.

Tanks: Palestinians = 0 Israel = 3,657
Helicopters: Palestinians = 0 Israel = 130
Combat Air Craft: Palestinians = 0 Israel = 402
Artillery Towed: Palestinians = 0 Israel = 5432
Armoured Personnel Carriers: Palestinians = 0 Israel = 10,419
Nuclear Missiles: Palestinians = 0 Israel = more than 250

Israel also has thousands of rockets and missiles, as well as naval ships,
submarines, unmanned drones, armoured bulldozers and the biggest fleet of
American fighter aircraft outside the US. Palestinians have only crude
homemade Qassam rockets, small arms and rudimentary bombs".

And this:

Palestinian resistance fighters fired 78 Qassams into Israel – no deaths and
no injuries· The Israeli military fired 239 artillery shells and 66 air to ground missiles into Beit Hanoun – 77 people killed, 19 in one massacre and hundreds have been injured.

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