half as many innocent palestinians? whos counting and who figured out they were innocent and by that i mean noncombatant? the same people who broke the story of the "massacre" in jenin that never took place?
The figures are based on ICT's:
http://www.ict.org.ilICT is an Israeli "anti-terrorism" research orginisation. It's controlled by various senior establishment figures in Israel. For example, it's management board of 3 men contains 1 ex director of Mossad, 1 former director of the Israeli foreign affairs ministry and advisor to the Israeli PM, and the head of the research institue where it's based.
It's board of trustees are mainly ex IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and senior figures from Israeli industry.
ICT claims the figures are 985 Palestinian non combatants killed by Israel, 715 Israeli non combatants killed by Palestinians.
However, ICT distorts the true figures.
You can easily see some of the cases where they distort the figures by looking throught their database of incidents.
They have the date of the intifada begining as 27/09/2000.
The first 3 incidents are:
Sgt. David Biri,, a soldier in the IDF, part of a military patrol in the Gaza strip, killed by a Palestinian bomb. He was armed, on duty, in occupied territory, taking part in a military operation. The ICT lists him as a "non combatant".
The second incident consisted of a riot on Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Israeli police shot 6 rioters dead. None were armed, the ICT list all 6 as combatants.
The third incident was the shooting of an Israeli border policeman by a Palestinian policeman. The Israeli policeman was armed, on active duty in Palestinian territory, again he is listed as a non combatant.
That's just the first 3 incidents of the intifada, but similar "standards" are used frequently.
And even they admit the Israelis have killed far more innocents than the Palestinians have. (And this doesn't even count the Palestinians who are denied medical care because of Israeli road closures and destruction of infrastructure)
