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They cannot quite grasp how European demonstrators can denounce Israel’s wars as “genocide” – a term that has never been applied to the Syrian hecatomb, the obliteration of Grozny by Russia, the 500,000 casualties in Iraq since the United States-led invasion in 2003, or US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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The lowest number of combatant casualties occurred in 2003, with just 20,000 killed.

The news about civilian casualties is also less bad than it used to be.

Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.

We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties.

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