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>Sure Hamas, with the help of the media framing of this as a 9/11 By what possible metric was it not a 9/11-magnitude event? Proportionally, on a per-capita ba
by dralley 3y ago
>Sure Hamas, with the help of the media framing of this as a 9/11
By what possible metric was it not a 9/11-magnitude event? Proportionally, on a per-capita basis, this attack was to Israel the equivalent of killing 50,000 people out of the US' much larger population. And one in ten people in the US personally knew someone that was killed or wounded on 9/11. Almost certainly far higher, in Israel.
And the videos of people's parents, children, grandchildren being murdered were posted on social media by the perpetrators themselves.
Comparisons to 9/11 are certainly not "played up". The opposite, if anything.
- bluish29 3y agoWould you mind doing the calculation of what the Palestinian casualties corresponds if they were happening in the US? or this does not serve your point?
- culi 3y agoGood point. But it's a little tricky considering the vast majority of Palestinians (~7 million) are refugees that have been displaced from their homeland. So are we talking about the half a million left in Gaza or the entire diaspora?
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- culi 3y agoI'm not saying it's not proportionally equivalent. But look at the political blank check 9/11 gave the US to do some insane things. This is why that line is being repeated over and over again in Israeli news. They want that same blank check. Never mind the fact that the amount of Israeli lives lost during that surprise attack pales in comparison to how many Palestinians have been killed in the last decade. Or even just a single year! Look at how many Palestinians (civilians only, even) were killed in 2015