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Michigan governor says not voting for Biden over Gaza war ‘supports second Trump term’
(www.theguardian.com)
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The rate at which the Palestinians are dying is far above most historic wars. For example, WW2 had about 85,000,000 deaths in 2176 days and the total population of the world was about 2.5 Billion so 0.000015625% dead per day compared to the situation in Gaza where 30,000 dead out of 2 Million total in Gaza over 143 days is 0.015% dead per day. You could argue by including Israeli casualties and total population should be included for fair comparison, but it's still not even close.
Unhelpful to compare a 5 month conflict in a tiny country to a globe spanning war that lasted years though right? And whats the point in comparing the percentage of the global population that died in one war vs the percentage of people that died in gaza, does that tell us anything useful?
A more helpful comparison might be the battle of leningrad: 1 500 000 soviet civillians died in 872 days, which works out at 1720 per day. Add on another 3.5 million military deaths and you're looking at 5733 every single day.