Car accidents alone have causes TWENTY TIMES more deaths in Israel than all of Israel's wars combined, including civilians (of Israeli people. I can't even remember the last time it has been brought up in any conversation. However, I cannot remember the last time I saw a newspaper headline about a car accident.
This is almost twice as many Palestinians killed here.
In the last year, about ~500 people have died in Israel from car accidents, and thousands injured. Maybe even evil, sadistic, inhuman.īut now I would like to present my point of view. This is probably the most unpopular opinion I can give: Hamas has threatened to increase the rocket attacks send suicide bombers into Israel in retaliation, and Israel is massing troops and tanks around Gaza for a possible ground assault. Israel has now responded with five days (so far) of air attacks and Naval bombardment on Gaza, resulting in over 350 dead, nearly 1,500 wounded and countless buildings and smugglers' tunnnels destroyed. Hamas leaders, angered by the blockade and seemingly little political headway made over the past 6 months, recently stepped up rocket attacks on Israel once again. Qassam rockets are the crude but deadly homemade missiles often launched towards Israeli territory (over 3,000 times in 2008 alone). Toward the end of the cease-fire in December, Israel, while closing Gaza's borders since November, indicated that it might extend the agreement, if Hamas ceased all Qassam rocket attacks. Though the cease-fire was broken several times by both sides, it largely held. Back in June, 2008, Egypt helped broker a 6-month cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the ruling body in the Gaza Strip.