Abstract

It was disheartening and sad to read Dr. Elihu Richter's knee-jerk response to the publication of our article ‘Imprints on the Consciousness … .’ in the European Journal of Public Health recently, as he was trying to justify the unjustifiable and distort reality. We are all too aware of the problem of falling into the trap of counting dead bodies and fixating on the consequences rather than the causes of death, injury and ill health in both Palestine and Israel, as the cause of suffering of all is the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian land. And whereas this is not our preferred approach to argument, we find ourselves in the unfortunate position of having to respond in line with the logic that he used in critiquing what we have written. From September 14th 1993 till September 28th 2000, 389 Palestinians were killed by Israelis, while 262 Israelis were killed by Palestinians. Palestinian fatality accounted for 60% of all Palestinian and Israeli fatalities during this Post Oslo Peace Accords period. …

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