Who do you favor in the Israel-Palestine conflict?

[Lief 🗽]

I support the Palestinians, as they are victims of Israeli imperialism. The fact that they lob a couple of (more or less) harmless missiles over the border every now and again while they are being murdered en masse and having their homes bulldozed and their land stolen and illegally given to Israeli colonists is a pretty ridiculous reason to throw one's hands up and label them just as bad.

[Lief 🗽]

With regards to the rockets, 28 Israelis have died from rocket attacks (though many more have been injured of course). Fatah has condemned the rocket attacks and polls taken since 2010 show that majorities of Palestinians oppose the firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel.

[Lief 🗽]

About 1/3 of the Palestinians were known to have been taking part in hostilities when they were killed. About half were known not to have been taking part in hostilities when they were killed (this does not included those who were "collateral damage" in targeted killings). Meanwhile, about a quarter of the Israeli deaths are Israeli soldiers who were killed. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a breakdown of how many of the killed Israeli civilians were participating in hostilities at the time of their death.

source: http://old.btselem.org/statistics/english/Casualties.asp

[Lief 🗽]

I'm not sure what the point you're making is, dead0. Of course many Palestinian combatants are going to be killed. And of course those combatants are going to use tactics that have proven effective in the past for vastly out-gunned and out-manned groups, such as terrorism. Generally when an imperial power colonizes a territory, there is resistance from the natives, resulting in casualties on both sides, though generally much, much more on the side of the conquered peoples. Have you seen Zulu? It's a very good film and illustrates this point well.