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Reports are coming out that the casualties have been underestimated. Severely injured will live as best they can for as long as they can with the injuries they have sustained, and this episode will cause deep psychological scars in both societies, but it seems Palestinian society is more unified to support each other. They have Sabr, they know Allah will forgive any and all their sins, because at this rate there are enough martyrs, which will intercede for them on Youm Al Qayama, to have their sins forgiven alone, Inshallah.I heard a credible analyst saying that a lot of IDF injured in Gaza would have died but are only alive because of enhanced life sustaining measures on the battlefield; they are either going to eventually die in hospitals or severely crippled, one way or another. Calling them 'alive' won't matter in those cases.
One number I saw said 500 severely injured.
IsraHELL murdered another group of their hostages in Gaza.
Israel is a tiny, tightly connected nation in both population and landmass. So you are right, the crippled injured are perceived more than, say, in a large country. Max Blumenthal talks about how large the funerals are.Wounded IDF reservists that were once high functioning professionals may represent a significant loss in their fields across the Israeli and some western economies. I went to school with a former Sayeret Matkal guy (talk about his infiltration into Gaza by sea, avoiding sharks, and kidnapping a really fat Hamas guy, some 15 years ago, in a wheelbarrow), and he was probably living a life as a professional in New York, but if he was called up and killed or severely injured, that could be a significant loss for his company. The longer this war drags on, and the IDF keeps taking casualties, the more impact it will have on their society’s long term capacity, build on human capital development.
Good points.Especially considering the extremely religious Israelis aren’t as smart as the more liberal ones, are are dominating Israeli demographics with each passing day, the religious and/or more Soviet origin ones are more emotional, and that society won’t be able to recover from a loss of the smarter more Western European origin ones, compared to the loss of brainwashed basic conscripts.
Demographics are trumping human capital investment.Israel is a tiny, tightly connected nation in both population and landmass. So you are right, the crippled injured are perceived more than, say, in a large country. Max Blumenthal talks about how large the funerals are.
Good points.
I was vaguely aware of the heirarchy in Israel, which went something like from the white Ashkanazi Jews to local / brown Jews to African Jews to Israeli Arab. But after watching the Max Blumenthal video I posted above, it seems like the 'cream' of the Israeli society--the Ashkanani ones-- being killed will have a disproportionate impact on the Israeli society: They are smart. Very smart! And generally more 'liberal' when compared with the eastern European Jews--who are basically the Taliban with tuxedoes as far as religiosity is a factor, except the Taliban are a highly moral people. Won't do injustice to anyone.
I think the introduction of the fanatics from eastern Europe into Israel around the time of the Oslo Accord, requiring the Settlements to greatly expand, and the fall of the Soviet Union, giving the NeoCons in America the total freedom are all interconnected phenomena, leading to what we are seeing now.
IsraHELL murdered another group of their hostages in Gaza.
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