"Israel's defensive military operation to protect the lives of its men, women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head
to show the victims as heartless, headless aggressors".
Israel *IS* the aggressor!
The entire world needs to be made aware of this study:
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We defined "conflict pauses" as periods of one or more days when no one is killed on either side, and we asked which side kills first after conflict pauses of different durations. As shown in Figure 2, this analysis shows that it is overwhelmingly Israel that kills first after a pause in the conflict:
79% of all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining 13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day). In addition, we found that this pattern -- in which Israel is more likely than Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause -- becomes more pronounced for longer conflict pauses. Indeed,
of the 25 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24, or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than 9 days.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-..._b_155611.html
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That's not to mention it is the US taxpayer who pays to rebuild the damage BOTH SIDES inflict on each other. We just recently gave Palestine nearly $1 Billion to rebuild Gaza after Israel destroyed it. Which is ironic because we fund the very Israeli military that did the damage!!!!