Killed and Injured in Gaza: A Comparison

(All population figures are taken from Wikipedia)
Population of Gaza        1.4 million
Total killed                     1,135 (as of Friday, January 16, 2009)
Total Injured                  5,200 (as of Friday, January 16, 2009)
= 0.081072 % of the Gaza population killed
= 0.371428 % of the Gaza population injured
Now let’s compare those figures with some other countries [...]

Read Full Post »

We Will Not Go Down (Song For Gaza)

We Will Not Go Down (Song for Gaza)
A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive
They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze
We will not go [...]

Read Full Post »

Gaza and Israel: I wonder what would happen…

7 January 2009
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if the situation between the Muslim Palestinians in Gaza and the Jews in Israel was reversed.
I wonder what would happen if Israel had never existed because they had lost their “war of independence”, which had then left millions of Jews blockaded in ghettos and [...]

Read Full Post »