Yesterday, Elder of Ziyon noted that Israel was being charged with Real Slow Ethnic Cleansing. In response to the charges that Israel is carrying on genocide or similar smears, Elder of Ziyon writes:
According to the CIA Factbook, there are 1,482,405 people in Gaza. The mortality rate is 3.74 deaths/1,000 population and the birth rate is 38.9 births/1,000.This means that this year one can expect some 5500 Gazans to die, and over 57,000 to be born.
The upshot is that even if 50,000 additional Gazans died this year – ten times their normal rate – their population would still be higher next year.
To kill that many Arabs, Israel would have to adopt the methods of Syria or Saddam’s Iraq or Jordan or Iran or Egypt (with that nice chemical weapon touch in Yemen) or….
Nope, when it comes to killing Arabs, Israel is out of its league.
Ah but, the Zionist have now hatched a new nefarious plot attacking Palestinians with sharp objects.
Israeli authorities fear that along with the new influx of livestock will come a wave of diseases not indigenous to Gaza, among them foot-and-mouth disease and the avian flu that are known to exist in Egypt. Because of the proximity between Gaza’s population to Israeli towns, the diseases could easily spread into Israel.Those fears fueled Israel’s decision to send thousands of vaccines into Gaza beginning next week, said Shadi Yassin, a spokesman for Israel Defense Forces unit in charge of contacts with Gaza.
That’s one of the complications of circumventing customs. And Israel is taking the initiative to ensure that it doesn’t cause problems in Gaza. That’s a funny kind of “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide” going there, isn’t it?
Crossposted at Soccer Dad.
Israel should send in birth control pills, not vaccines.
He he. More on the statistics from Shlemazl here:
http://shlemazl.blogspot.com/2008/01/amnesty-international-on-gaza-and-other.html
Oy vey – it is tinyurl next time, sorry Meryl.
“Israel should send in birth control pills, not vaccines.”
But they smuggle Viagra from Egypt in humongous quantities!
This can’t be right. I keep reading that Israelis are the new Nazis. A dozen years after the Nazis took power Europe was reduced to a few Jews. The Israelis have governed the territories for more than three times that. It’s a wonder there are any Palestinians left at all.
I will be amazed if the Palestinians actually use any vaccines that Israel sends. They’ll probably say they’re using them for mind control or something.
You’re right John. It will be like those imams who denounce polio vaccines as being attempts by the nefarious West to poison the children of believers. Then when the poor kids get polio and die or are crippled for life, these frauds tell the grieving parents “It was Allah’s will.” That’s the Medieval mind at work. If we do not want that type of mind to sprread ove the entire Earth we must fight off the jihadists.
When Israel took over Yerushalayim they found warehouses full of Polio vaccines that the Jordanians had refused to use because they were “Jewish”. Meanwhile, Israeli children had gotten polio because they did not have access to the vaccines.