By Bret Stephens, Jerusalem Post, May 30, 2002
According to data compiled by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center - a Palestinian research organization - 1,296 Palestinians were killed by Israelis in the period between September 30, 2000 and May 7, 2002. Of that number, 37 were women, or 2.8% of the total. (A less credible Palestinian organization puts the tally at 65 women, or 5.3%.)
Similarly, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs records 496 Israeli deaths (including 138 uniformed soldiers or policemen) due to Palestinian terrorism over the same time-frame, among which were 126 women. That's a little over 25% of the gross toll.
Breaking it down further, another Palestinian group, the Palestine Monitor, provides an age distribution for Palestinians killed. It shows that 75.1% were between 16 and 39. Another 11.7% were under 15, and only 11% were over 40.
By contrast, a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows the equivalent Israeli figures were 57.7%, 7.4% and 34.9%, respectively.
Put another way, proportionally more than three times as many middle-age and elderly Israelis have been killed than Palestinians in those age groups. For women, the ratio is nine-to-one. Among children, Palestinian fatality rates are somewhat higher than Israeli ones. But Israeli children do not, as a rule, march on Palestinian military outposts, stones in hand. Then too, the high Palestinian number includes all Palestinian suicide bombers operating within the territories and the Gaza Strip, as well as 210 members of the PA's security forces and about 100 members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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