He said that during the 1948 war 800/900 Palestinians were massacred by Jewish/Israeli militias, while 200/300 Jews were massacred by Arab militias; the disparity was because Jewish/Israeli militias conquered some 400 Palestinian towns and villages, whereas the Arabs conquered only a dozen Jewish settlements.
He said that as wars go 1948 was not, in the scheme of things, as bloody as many try to make it out to be when considering that, for example, 8,000-9,000 Muslim men and boys were killed at Srebrenica in the space of just two days during the Bosnian war.
My math is weak but if while conquering 400 towns and villages, the Jews "massacred", and I am not going to review each and every case to verify his figures but simply make another point, maybe 800 Arabs (and I presume he means civilians not engaged in combat or combat support or unintentionally), whereas Arabs massacred 200 at a dozen locations, can you imagine how many they would have killed if they had been militarily more successful?
Of course, their "success" rate would probably have been 100%, as they intended.
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when he made this point, he was called a racist
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