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2) Israel themselves rely on the Gazan ministry of health’s numbers, aka Hamas, which I believe are pegged at 40k, definitely an extreme undercount
Finally, there’s no quibbling about it. Israel (on the US’s behalf) is a oppressor. Those imprisoned, starved and bombed in Gaza are the oppressed.
But happy to hear why you think that may not be the case.
oppression doesn't equal saint hood. the wirld is filled with opressed monsters. Part of the reason why they are opressed is a inability to form strong institutions .
1) victim blaming 2) why can’t they form strong institutions? (I’m sure it’s nothing to do with putting them in a ghetto where nobody can enter or leave without Israel’s say-so, controlling their air and sea, and water supply and electricity, right?)
Your “national socialists” analogy is tortured. a better analogy is the US and their genocide of the native americans.
You're comparing a) the number of named, positively identified deceased people counted during an active conflict [1] where Gaza's healthcare system has been targeted on a daily basis with b) the final body count [2] from something that took place 79 years ago and has been studied by historians for decades. They're not comparable. In actual fact, fatality counts of Palestinians have been subjected to a standard far more stringent than anything applied during other ongoing conflicts, at least in "western" media.
It will probably be a decade before anyone is able to dig up the mass graves, sort through the rubble, interview families (that haven't been entirely wiped out), and come to a more complete list, and even then there will be a large number of unidentified deaths and the estimate will be a range.
[1] Really the word "conflict" is inappropriate here, because most of what's taking place is attacks on Palestinian civilian. The actual military conflict appears to be only a small percentage of the overall violence.
[2] Incidentally, both the high and low estimates for Hiroshima deaths also include people who died from the after-effects of the bombing, not just people who died during the attack itself.