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In reply to the discussion: Breaking - the US has called for an immediate cease fire in Gaza [View all]Richard D
(8,877 posts). . . I guess the exact number of Palestinians as Israelis should have been killed to keep it fair? I wonder how that could be arranged. Volunteers? Lottery? Should the same number be tortured, raped, kidnapped and kept in horrific conditions for six months? Dismembered? Burned to death?
We'd have to also match their ages and professions and family size to be fair, no? Sounds like a sci fi movie.
I'm struck that only a million German civilians were killed in WWII. It really should have gone up to at least 12 million, probably a whole lot more to be fair.
The Japanese killed very few American civilians, yet we killed almost half a million Japanese civilians just in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Highly disproportionate! Why wasn't America charged with genocide and crimes against humanity? Certainly the allied forces should have been so charged for all the German civilians killed.
Sounds like a plot for a B grade scifi movie.