Quantum Learning: August 03

A while ago I found the task of downloading the entire list of victims from the official website of Al Jazeera, the idea took off from several posts that I will copy later and an idea from a page that my friend Ozeri Itzik passed to me the other day.

First of all: War is not a way of resolving issues, never and it must be the last resort. War always makes both sides lose (effectively, one side always looses more than the other, but that is what happens when fighting is the only way they found of winning an argument - as nonsensical as what Hamas tries to pass as something trying to resemble any validity).

CASUALTIES DATA:

Of the total casualties of the site list are 1776 people, of which 135 were unidentified 449 have not identified age (135 are included in this issue) 241 are in the margins of the distribution of age (under 12 and older than 80). Leaving 1400 people identified, and age greater than Bar Mitzvah (13 years) and under 80 (only in the range of 65 to 79 years there are 42 persons).

Now the interesting facts about the casualties: over 80% were military-age men and the highest range is between 12 and 34 years with 647 casualties on the Gaza side and for women age ranges (except in two cases 23 and 27 years) are always below 12 or above 40 years old.

The combination of casualties: the proportion of women is always below 15% of the total, and in many cases is less than 10% except where they are minors (i.e.:, 12 years and under)

DEMOGRAPHIC DATA (from the 2010 census, with comments on the casualties correlation)

Considering also, that the total population from the 2010 census is 1'600,000+ people, that gives us less than 2% of the total population (hardly a "genocidal" process as lots of people would like to name it.

Age structure

0–14 years: 44.7% (male 343,988/female 325,856) 15–64 years: 52.7% (male 403,855/female 386,681) 65 years and over: 2.7% (male 16,196/female 23,626) (2008 est.)

So there is hardly women fighting. The total percentage of female casualties supports the fact that there are no "indiscriminate killing" of "civilian population."

Sex ratio

at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15–64 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female total population: 1.04 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

Again, the population is quite equilibrated with the proportion of females and males, and yet, the casualties are highest among the males.

What do all of these numbers mean?

The press is actually being manipulated (there are no male victims in any of the 52 - and counting - pictures that the Washington Times received when this post was being made)
The number of casualties includes children and women is not nearly what they want the West to believe - hence the urgent need to recycle images from Syria, Hollywood and shots from various angles of a victim or carry (macabre) at different locations.
Too many people like to think that no one is fighting on the other side, so the idea is to believe that Israel will only attack "innocent people", something that has been supported by Hamas setting up rocket launchers, and military equipment in schools (UN), hospitals, and mosques.
Media manipulation has as its primary objective "show what unarmed and helpless" are Gazaites (And yet today, Indian TV, French newsletters, Italian press, and many others acknowledge that the manipulation and censorship by Hamas is real).
Not wearing uniforms. When Hamas uses them is only to show-off or for any "official demonstration" (this perfectly explains the high number of "civilians")
There is an army in Gaza, just not the kind that any Western culture is used to see (remember this is Guerilla in an Asymmetric fight).