Elder Of Ziyon On "Casualties Of Truth" And The Indifference Of The Media

Elder of Ziyon addresses the issue of the contradictions in the number of Gazans killed during Operation Cast Lead as claimed by the Palestinians:

For three weeks in December 2008-January 2009, Israel and Hamas fought a war in the Gaza Strip after Hamas announced it was abandoning the ceasefire and began escalated rocket and mortar attacks on Israel.

There is one fact about that war which people around the world think they know: there were about 1400 Palestinians killed in the war and most or almost all of them were civilians, mainly women an children.

This claim, however, is false and demonstrably so on the basis of careful research using publicly available and reliable materials. Indeed, a group of bloggers, including the author, have shown already that more than 30 percent of the claimed "civilian" casualties were in fact, to use the polite word, armed militants or members of Hamas-led security forces. And the number of such combatants we are discovering is rising every day.

Read the whole thing.

But there is another issue--the media doesn't seem to care:

Every effort I have made to reach out to people doing similar research, in order to consolidate findings, has been met with silence. Every effort to publicize it through the media has been ignored.

...I just don't get it.

Is it not newsworthy? Is it automatically suspect because it originated at a blog? Are people turned off by the blog name? Do the other researchers feel threatened by "competition"?

Or the media continues to be just a little too ready to accept the Palestinian interpretation of events.

See also: In Gaza, After The Battle Is Over--The Battle Of The Numbers Begins

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