Monday, October 08, 2007

Avigdor Lieberman denounces Uri Avnery and Gush Shalom

1. Telling the truth about Uri Avnery's Gush Shalom, at last?:

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/press_releases/1191626868/
Gush Shalom threatens to file SLAPP suit against Lieberman.


2. Those loyal Israeli Arabs, again:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123841


3. The Left is bellowing about the .Israel Lobby. muzzling Bishop Tutu.
By .Israel Lobby. of course they simply mean Dem Joos. As for Tutu, read
here:
https://www.davidproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=265


4. Arab-Israeli Fatalities Rank 49th
By Gunnar Heinsohn and Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/8/2007
The Arab-Israeli conflict is often said, not just by extremists, to be the
world.s most dangerous conflict - and, accordingly, Israel is judged the
world.s most belligerent country.
For example, British prime minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in
July 2003 that .Terrorism will not be defeated without peace in the Middle
East between Israel and Palestine. Here it is that the poison is
incubated. Here it is that the extremist is able to confuse in the mind of
a frighteningly large number of people the case for a Palestinian state
and the destruction of Israel.. This viewpoint leads many Europeans, among
others, to see Israel as the most menacing country on earth.
But is this true? It flies in the face of the well-known pattern that
liberal democracies do not aggress; plus, it assumes, wrongly, that the
Arab-Israeli conflict is among the most costly in terms of lives lost.
To place the Arab-Israeli fatalities in their proper context, one of the
two co-authors, Gunnar Heinsohn, has compiled statistics to rank conflicts
since 1950 by the number of human deaths incurred. Note how far down the
list is the entry in bold type.
Conflicts since 1950 with over 10,000 Fatalities*
1 40,000,000 Red China, 1949-76 (outright killing, manmade famine, Gulag)
2 10,000,000 Soviet Bloc: late Stalinism, 1950-53; post-Stalinism, to 1987
(mostly Gulag)
3 4,000,000 Ethiopia, 1962-92: Communists, artificial hunger, genocides
4 3,800,000 Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa): 1967-68; 1977-78; 1992-95;
1998-present
5 2,800,000 Korean war, 1950-53
6 1,900,000 Sudan, 1955-72; 1983-2006 (civil wars, genocides)
7 1,870,000 Cambodia: Khmer Rouge 1975-79; civil war 1978-91
8 1,800,000 Vietnam War, 1954-75
9 1,800,000 Afghanistan: Soviet and internecine killings, Taliban
1980-2001
10 1,250,000 West Pakistan massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh 1971)
11 1,100,000 Nigeria, 1966-79 (Biafra); 1993-present
12 1,100,000 Mozambique, 1964-70 (30,000) + after retreat of Portugal
1976-92
13 1,000,000 Iran-Iraq-War, 1980-88
14 900,000 Rwanda genocide, 1994
15 875,000 Algeria: against France 1954-62 (675,000); between Islamists
and the government 1991-2006 (200,000)
16 850,000 Uganda, 1971-79; 1981-85; 1994-present
17 650,000 Indonesia: Marxists 1965-66 (450,000); East Timor, Papua, Aceh
etc, 1969-present (200,000)
18 580,000 Angola: war against Portugal 1961-72 (80,000); after Portugal.s
retreat (1972-2002)
19 500,000 Brazil against its Indians, up to 1999
20 430,000 Vietnam, after the war ended in 1975 (own people; boat
refugees)
21 400,000 Indochina: against France, 1945-54
22 400,000 Burundi, 1959-present (Tutsi/Hutu)
23 400,000 Somalia, 1991-present
24 400,000 North Korea up to 2006 (own people)
25 300,000 Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, 1980s-1990s
26 300,000 Iraq, 1970-2003 (Saddam against minorities)
27 240,000 Columbia, 1946-58; 1964-present
28 200,000 Yugoslavia, Tito regime, 1944-80
29 200,000 Guatemala, 1960-96
30 190,000 Laos, 1975-90
31 175,000 Serbia against Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, 1991-1999
32 150,000 Romania, 1949-99 (own people)
33 150,000 Liberia, 1989-97
34 140,000 Russia against Chechnya, 1994-present
35 150,000 Lebanon civil war, 1975-90
36 140,000 Kuwait War, 1990-91
37 130,000 Philippines: 1946-54 (10,000); 1972-present (120,000)
38 130,000 Burma/Myanmar, 1948-present
39 100,000 North Yemen, 1962-70
40 100,000 Sierra Leone, 1991-present
41 100,000 Albania, 1945-91 (own people)
42 80,000 Iran, 1978-79 (revolution)
43 75,000 Iraq, 2003-present (domestic)
44 75,000 El Salvador, 1975-92
45 70,000 Eritrea against Ethiopia, 1998-2000
46 68,000 Sri Lanka, 1997-present
47 60,000 Zimbabwe, 1966-79; 1980-present
48 60,000 Nicaragua, 1972-91 (Marxists/natives etc,)
49 51,000 Arab-Israeli conflict 1950-present
50 50,000 North Vietnam, 1954-75 (own people)
51 50,000 Tajikistan, 1992-96 (secularists against Islamists)
52 50,000 Equatorial Guinea, 1969-79
53 50,000 Peru, 1980-2000
54 50,000 Guinea, 1958-84
55 40,000 Chad, 1982-90
56 30,000 Bulgaria, 1948-89 (own people)
57 30,000 Rhodesia, 1972-79
58 30,000 Argentina, 1976-83 (own people)
59 27,000 Hungary, 1948-89 (own people)
60 26,000 Kashmir independence, 1989-present
61 25,000 Jordan government vs. Palestinians, 1970-71 (Black September)
62 22,000 Poland, 1948-89 (own people)
63 20,000 Syria, 1982 (against Islamists in Hama)
64 20,000 Chinese-Vietnamese war, 1979
65 19,000 Morocco: war against France, 1953-56 (3,000) and in Western
Sahara, 1975-present (16,000)
66 18,000 Congo Republic, 1997-99
67 10,000 South Yemen, 1986 (civil war)
*All figures rounded. Sources: Brzezinski, Z., Out of Control: Global
Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, 1993; Courtois, S., Le
Livre Noir du Communism, 1997; Heinsohn, G., Lexikon der Vlkermorde, 1999,
2nd ed.; Heinsohn, G., Shne und Weltmacht, 2006, 8th ed.; Rummel. R.,
Death by Government, 1994; Small, M. and Singer, J.D., Resort to Arms:
International and Civil Wars 1816-1980, 1982; White, M., .Death Tolls for
the Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century,. 2003.
This grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts since
1950 numbering about 85,000,000. Of that sum, the deaths in the
Arab-Israeli conflict since 1950 include 32,000 deaths due to Arab state
attacks and 19,000 due to Palestinian attacks, or 51,000 in all. Arabs
make up roughly 35,000 of these dead and Jewish Israelis make up 16,000.
These figures mean that deaths Arab-Israeli fighting since 1950 amount to
just 0.06 percent of the total number of deaths in all conflicts in that
period. More graphically, only 1 out of about 1,700 persons killed in
conflicts since 1950 has died due to Arab-Israeli fighting.
(Adding the 11,000 killed in the Israeli war of independence, 1947-49,
made up of 5,000 Arabs and 6,000 Israeli Jews, does not significantly
alter these figures.)
In a different perspective, some 11,000,000 Muslims have been violently
killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty
years of fighting Israel, or just 1 out of every 315 Muslim fatalities. In
contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by
fellow Muslims.
Comments: (1) Despite the relative non-lethality of the Arab-Israeli
conflict, its renown, notoriety, complexity, and diplomatic centrality
will probably give it continued out-sized importance in the global
imagination. And Israel.s reputation will continue to pay the price. (2)
Still, it helps to point out the 1-in-1,700 statistic as a corrective, in
the hope that one day, this reality will register, permitting the
Arab-Israeli conflict to subside to its rightful, lesser place in world
politics.

5. Brandeis Professor denounces Israel Studies as "Al Jew-Zeera" at

http://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2007/09/25/OpEd/OpEd-Israel.Studies.al.JewZeera-2988473.shtml


6. Haaretz joins the anti-Semitic cabal demonizing the "Israel Lobby":

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123842






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