Abonneren
Likoed Nederland
  • Home
  • Publicaties
    • Artikelen
    • Brieven
    • Persberichten
    • Acties
  • Achtergronden
  • Geselecteerd
    • Clips Palestijnse televisie
    • Video’s
    • Uit de pers
    • Historische documenten
    • Nederlandse links
  • De Nederlandse media
    • Ongehoord Palestijns nieuws
    • Dossier: media leugens
    • De Nederlandse media: niet evenwichtig
    • Kennisquiz Midden-Oosten
  • English
    • Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
    • Clips of Palestinian television
    • Video’s
    • Arab Extremism
    • From the Press
    • Historic documents
    • Israeli Government Points of View
    • Likud Policy Statements
    • English links
    • About Likud
  • Over ons
    • Contact
    • Steun ons – support
    • Over Likoed
Geen resultaat
Toon alle resultaten
Likoed Nederland
Geen resultaat
Toon alle resultaten
Likoed Nederland
Geen resultaat
Toon alle resultaten
Home English From the Press

Arab-Israeli fatalities rank 49th

8 oktober 2007
in From the Press
Reading Time: 3 mins read
Tweet
Share
Pin
Share

By Gunnar Heinsohn and Daniel Pipes. Professor Heinsohn is director of the
Raphael-Lemkin-Institut fur Xenophobie- und Genozidforschung at the University
of Bremen. Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum.

October 8, 2007.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is often said, not just by extremists, to be the world’s
most dangerous conflict – and, accordingly, Israel is judged the world’s most
belligerent country.

For example, British prime minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in July
2003 that: “Terrorism will not be defeated without peace in the Middle East
between Israel and Palestine. Here it is that the poison is incubated. Here it is
that the extremist is able to confuse in the mind of a frighteningly large number
of people the case for a Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel.”

This viewpoint leads many Europeans, among others, to see Israel as the
most menacing country on earth.

But is this true? It flies in the face of the well-known pattern that liberal
democracies do not aggress; plus, it assumes, wrongly, that the Arab-Israeli
conflict is among the most costly in terms of lives lost.

To place the Arab-Israeli fatalities in their proper context, one of the two
co-authors, Gunnar Heinsohn, has compiled statistics to rank conflicts since
1950 by the number of human deaths incurred. Note how far down the list is
the entry in bold type.

Conflicts since 1950 with over 10,000 Fatalities:

1

40,000,000

Red China, 1949-76 (outright killing, manmade famine, Gulag)

2

10,000,000

Soviet Bloc: late Stalinism, 1950-53; post-Stalinism, to 1987 (mostly
Gulag)

3

4,000,000

Ethiopia, 1962-92: Communists, artificial hunger, genocides

4

3,800,000

Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa): 1967-68; 1977-78; 1992-95; 1998-present

5

2,800,000

Korean war, 1950-53

6

1,900,000

Sudan, 1955-72; 1983-2006 (civil wars, genocides)

7

1,870,000

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge 1975-79; civil war 1978-91

8

1,800,000

Vietnam War, 1954-75

9

1,800,000

Afghanistan: Soviet and internecine killings, Taliban 1980-2001

10

1,250,000

West Pakistan massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh 1971)

11

1,100,000

Nigeria, 1966-79 (Biafra); 1993-present

12

1,100,000

Mozambique, 1964-70 (30,000) + after retreat of Portugal 1976-92

13

1,000,000

Iran-Iraq-War, 1980-88

14

900,000

Rwanda genocide, 1994

15

875,000

Algeria: against France 1954-62 (675,000); between Islamists and the
government 1991-2006 (200,000)

16

850,000

Uganda, 1971-79; 1981-85; 1994-present

17

650,000

Indonesia: Marxists 1965-66 (450,000); East Timor, Papua, Aceh etc,
1969-present (200,000)

18

580,000

Angola: war against Portugal 1961-72 (80,000); after Portugal’s retreat
(1972-2002)

19

500,000

Brazil against its Indians, up to 1999

20

430,000

Vietnam, after the war ended in 1975 (own people; boat refugees)

21

400,000

Indochina: against France, 1945-54

22

400,000

Burundi, 1959-present (Tutsi/Hutu)

23

400,000

Somalia, 1991-present

24

400,000

North Korea up to 2006 (own people)

25

300,000

Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, 1980s-1990s

26

300,000

Iraq, 1970-2003 (Saddam against minorities)

27

240,000

Columbia, 1946-58; 1964-present

28

200,000

Yugoslavia, Tito regime, 1944-80

29

200,000

Guatemala, 1960-96

30

190,000

Laos, 1975-90

31

175,000

Serbia against Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, 1991-1999

32

150,000

Romania, 1949-99 (own people)

33

150,000

Liberia, 1989-97

34

140,000

Russia against Chechnya, 1994-present

35

150,000

Lebanon civil war, 1975-90

36

140,000

Kuwait War, 1990-91

37

130,000

Philippines: 1946-54 (10,000); 1972-present (120,000)

38

130,000

Burma/Myanmar, 1948-present

39

100,000

North Yemen, 1962-70

40

100,000

Sierra Leone, 1991-present

41

100,000

Albania, 1945-91 (own people)

42

80,000

Iran, 1978-79 (revolution)

43

75,000

Iraq, 2003-present (domestic)

44

75,000

El Salvador, 1975-92

45

70,000

Eritrea against Ethiopia, 1998-2000

46

68,000

Sri Lanka, 1997-present

47

60,000

Zimbabwe, 1966-79; 1980-present

48

60,000

Nicaragua, 1972-91 (Marxists/natives etc,)

49

51,000

Arab-Israeli conflict 1950-present

50

50,000

North Vietnam, 1954-75 (own people)

51

50,000

Tajikistan, 1992-96 (secularists against Islamists)

52

50,000

Equatorial Guinea, 1969-79

53

50,000

Peru, 1980-2000

54

50,000

Guinea, 1958-84

55

40,000

Chad, 1982-90

56

30,000

Bulgaria, 1948-89 (own people)

57

30,000

Rhodesia, 1972-79

58

30,000

Argentina, 1976-83 (own people)

59

27,000

Hungary, 1948-89 (own people)

60

26,000

Kashmir independence, 1989-present

61

25,000

Jordan government vs. Palestinians, 1970-71 (Black September)

62

22,000

Poland, 1948-89 (own people)

63

20,000

Syria, 1982 (against Islamists in Hama)

64

20,000

Chinese-Vietnamese war, 1979

65

19,000

Morocco: war against France, 1953-56 (3,000) and in Western Sahara,
1975-present (16,000)

66

18,000

Congo Republic, 1997-99

67

10,000

South Yemen, 1986 (civil war)

*All figures rounded. Sources: Brzezinski, Z., Out of Control: Global Turmoil on
the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, 1993; Courtois, S., Le Livre Noir du
Communism, 1997; Heinsohn, G., Lexikon der Volkermorde, 1999, 2nd ed.;
Heinsohn, G., Sohne und Weltmacht, 2006, 8th ed.; Rummel. R., Death by
Government, 1994; Small, M. and Singer, J.D., Resort to Arms: International
and Civil Wars 1816-1980, 1982; White, M., “Death Tolls for the Major Wars
and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century,” 2003.

Mao Tse-Tung, by far the greatest post-1950 murderer.

This grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts since 1950
numbering about 85,000,000. Of that sum, the deaths in the Arab-Israeli
conflict since 1950 include 32,000 deaths due to Arab state attacks and
19,000 due to Palestinian attacks, or 51,000 in all. Arabs make up roughly
35,000 of these dead and Jewish Israelis make up 16,000.

These figures mean that deaths Arab-Israeli fighting since 1950 amount to just
0.06 percent of the total number of deaths in all conflicts in that period. More
graphically, only 1 out of about 1,700 persons killed in conflicts since 1950 has
died due to Arab-Israeli fighting.

(Adding the 11,000 killed in the Israeli war of independence, 1947-49,
made up of 5,000 Arabs and 6,000 Israeli Jews, does not significantly alter
these figures.)

In a different perspective, some 11,000,000 Muslims have been violently killed
since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty years of
fighting Israel, or just 1 out of every 315 Muslim fatalities. In contrast, over 90
percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.

Comments: (1) Despite the relative non-lethality of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its
renown, notoriety, complexity, and diplomatic centrality will probably give it
continued out-sized importance in the global imagination. And Israel’s
reputation will continue to pay the price. (2) Still, it helps to point out the
1-in-1,700 statistic as a corrective, in the hope that one day, this reality will
register, permitting the Arab-Israeli conflict to subside to its rightful, lesser
place in world politics.

Tweet
Share
Pin
Share

Gerelateerd Artikelen

arab rights
Persberichten

Terreur en antisemitisme onderbelicht in klachten over Op1

by Awi
30 januari 2023
0

Persbericht van Likoed Nederland, 31 januari 2023.   Likoed Nederland heeft een klacht ingediend tegen de uitzending van Op1 waarin...

Lees meer
apartheid islamitische majoor Ella Waweya (foto IDF)

NPO-Ombudsman bekritiseerde Apartheid beschuldiging al eerder

11 januari 2023
Hamas planet Earth

Actiesucces: Nu.nl rectificeert de doelstelling van Hamas

10 januari 2023
Buitenhof apartheid

VPRO-Buitenhof had kritisch moeten zijn tegen Israël-hater

21 december 2022
Israel babies

Israël: veilig, gezond en gelukkig

13 december 2022
Wereldheerschappij

Wereldheerschappij: Joden of reptielen?

13 november 2022
Volgend Artikel

Verkeerde berichtgeving doet het Midden-Oosten geen goed

Eigenaar van de enige bijbelwinkel in Gaza vermoord

  • Over Likoed
  • Steun ons
  • Contact

© 1997 - 2022 Overname van artikelen is toegestaan en wordt zelfs zeer op prijs gesteld, onder voorwaarde van bronvermelding en een link naar het originele artikel op likoed.nl.

Geen resultaat
Toon alle resultaten
  • Home
  • Publicaties
    • Artikelen
    • Brieven
    • Persberichten
    • Acties
  • Achtergronden
  • Geselecteerd
    • Clips Palestijnse televisie
    • Video’s
    • Uit de pers
    • Historische documenten
    • Nederlandse links
  • De Nederlandse media
    • Ongehoord Palestijns nieuws
    • Dossier: media leugens
    • De Nederlandse media: niet evenwichtig
    • Kennisquiz Midden-Oosten
  • English
    • Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
    • Clips of Palestinian television
    • Video’s
    • Arab Extremism
    • From the Press
    • Historic documents
    • Israeli Government Points of View
    • Likud Policy Statements
    • English links
    • About Likud
  • Over ons
    • Contact
    • Steun ons – support
    • Over Likoed

© 1997 - 2022 Overname van artikelen is toegestaan en wordt zelfs zeer op prijs gesteld, onder voorwaarde van bronvermelding en een link naar het originele artikel op likoed.nl.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In