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30 December 2011updated 09 Sep 2021 12:36pm

Stop ignoring the facts about Cast Lead

It featured the lowest ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in any asymmetric conflict in the histo

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Three years ago, Operation Cast Lead saw Israel send troops into the Gaza Strip in response to the thousands of rockets and mortars launched into Israeli civilian areas. Which other government in the world wouldn’t defend its citizens in such circumstances? If some wish to portray this operation as a “massacre”, they would have to ignore the facts to do so.

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