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The Real Numbers: Counting Gaza's Dead and Disappeared
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ilana MercerTo date, about 12 percent of Gaza's population has been murdered, disappeared or detained. ~ilana
In the lexicon of crime, what Israel is currently doing is called plea bargaining. Israel is copping to a lesser charge with respect to the number of Palestinians dead and disappeared by its death squads in Gaza.
Nothing if not cunning, the Israelis know just how reliably compliant the West's pundits are. At least those who did time in mainstream media. As an example take the celebration among self-styled independent media members of the fact that Israel's military now admits that 70,000 souls were murdered in Gaza.
The "genocidal entity" knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) Ghazzawi is many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge. Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic.
Moron media fail to comprehend that Israeli leadership is copping to a lesser charge with the intent to sustain Israel's international impunity.
What the dumb, non-dissident media is doing is being itself. It is offering Israel a plea bargain in advance. "You can't fix stupid," said one Texas funny man. "There is not a pill you can take or a class you can go to. Stupid is forever."
On top of that, since Israelis keep killing and destroying as the fancy takes them; the 70,000 plea-bargained figure, readily accepted by the Israeli perpetrators who are still on the lam, is no longer valid. Even that erroneous undercount, reported by CNN too, is outdated. Late in December of 2025, OCHA had counted 70,668; Haaretz 71,000.
In fact, as far back as June 26, 2025, Nir Hasson, writer for Haaretz, announced that, "Yes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings were already killed." Later, in the Hebrew edition of July 18, Haaretz featured an op-ed by a "University of London" expert in the assessment of the casualties of "war" (genocide is not war), who admitted that "Yes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings had already been killed."




