Israel military says 2 civilians killed for every Hamas militant is a 'tremendously positive' ratio given combat challen

[fly2man]

20. misunderstanding what he saying

I never heard Israel say there are 500,000 terrorists. If there were that many, there would be more than 15,000 dead.

I don't think you are understanding what the colonial is saying.

He says 5,000 terrorists and 10,000 civilians died. This is a 1:2 ratio. He says that is a better ratio than in other legal wars.

Let's assume in the typical urban war the ratio is 1:10. To get to 5,000 terrorists with that ratio, you need to kill 50,000 civilians.

So his point is that it is deceptive to characterize Israel as having killed 10,000 civilians. Another way to look at it is Israel saved 40,000 civilians by taking a lot of chances that got Israeli soldiers killed.