Another Hamasnik is dead, and cellular service in Gaza was shut down. I expect to hear the cries from outraged human rights workers about this assault on the civilian population of Gaza.
Oh, no, wait. Not really. This is red-on-red violence, and that never gets any condemnation. Well, except from the members of the red, like these guys:
The Arab League called for an immediate end to Palestinian factional fighting in the Palestinian territories on Tuesday, describing it as unprecedented “Palestinian madness”.
“Let’s leave the killing, aggression and destruction to Israel, because that’s enough for the Palestinian people,” said Mohamed Subaih, the Arab League’s assistant secretary-general for Palestinian affairs.
“This infighting is unprecedented Palestinian madness,” Subaih added.
Actually, Muslim on Muslim violence has killed more Muslims than any other “madness,” but hey, who’s counting? Well, someone, actually.
The total count reaches about 60,000 Arabs killed in the framework of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Among them only several thousand Palestinians, although it is because of them, and only them, that Israel is the target of the world’s anger. Every Arab and Muslim death is regrettable. And it is okay to criticize Israel. But the obsessive and demonic criticism emphasizes a far more amazing fact: The silence of the world, or at least relative silence, in the face of the systematic extermination of millions of others by Muslim and Arab regimes.
Following are cherry-picked lines (I know some people simply hate that concept) that sum up the Muslim-on-Muslim deaths in the world’s major Muslim countries:
Algeria summary: 500,000 to 1 million in the war of independence; 100,000 in the civil war in the 90’s.
Sudan summary: 2.6 million to 3 million.
Afghanistan Summary: One million to one and a half million, as a result of the Soviet invasion; about one million in the civil war.
Somalia Summary: 400,000 to 550,000 victims in the civil war.
Bangladesh summary: 1.4 million to 2 million.
Indonesia summary: 400,000 killed, with an additional 100,000 to 200,000 in East Timor
Iraq Summary: 1.54 million to 2 million victims.
Iran Summary: 450,000 to 970,000 victims.Lebanon summary: 130,000.
Yemen summary: 100,000 to 150,000 fatalities
Chechnya summary: 80,000 to 300,000 fatalities.
But wait, there’s more:
Jordan: 1970 to 1971 the Black September riots took place In the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. King Hussein was fed up of the Palestians use of the country and their threatened to take control of it. The confrontation, mainly a massacre in the refugee camps, took thousands of lives. According to estimates provided by the Palestinians themselves – 10,000 to 25,000 fatalities. According to other sources – a few thousand.
Chad: Half of the population of Chad are Muslims: In various civil wars 30,000 civilians have been killed.
Kosovo: In the mainly Muslim area of Yugoslavia about 10,000 were killed in the war there from 1998 to 2000.
Tajikistan: Civil war from 1992 to 1996 left about 50,000 dead.
Syria: Hafez Assad’s systematic persecution of the Muslim Brotherhood ended in the 1982 massacre in the city of Hama, costing the lives of about 20,000 people.
Iran: Thousands were killed in the beginning of the Humeini Revolution. The precise number is unknown, but is somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands. The Kurds also suffered at the hands of Iran, and about 10,000 of them were murdered there.
Turkey: About 20,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey as part of the conflict there.
And yet, the world screams “genocide” every time Israel kills a terrorist or three. The Sudanese genocide goes on under everyone’s noses, and mostly under the media radar, except when George Clooney suddenly recognizes it. The rest of the stories above are ignored or downplayed. The real danger in the middle east, they say, is Israel—not the despots and sadistic bastards who are murdering their own countrymen—mostly over religion. Mostly over Islam. That religion of peace(TM).
The statistics don’t lie. But the UN and the media do.
I’d point out that Elder of Ziyon has been keeping track of the fatalities of the latest Palestinian on Palestinian violence. The media doesn’t seem much interested.
Yes, the Paleosimians are Revolting… they’re also fighting each other too…
(*waggles eyebrows*)
Ba Da, Bum.
Mazel Tov to both sides!
I am waiting for the MSM to figure out a way to blame Israel for the Phillistines killing each other.
Thanks for the summary of the article, and the link to it, about the sheer volume of muslim-on-muslim killings. I saw that piece in the paper (print) here in Israel, but, alas, my Hebrew is not yet up to the task… Although I did figure out the accompnaying graph.
It was good to read the whole thing in English.
Palestinians are revolting? No, I would say that most of them are nice upstanding citizens, it is only a few of them that may look funny to a person that is not used to, you know…