" let's have your comparative Israeli/"Arab" casualty figures" - Steve Shaw

In 1947 as the Great Britain's League of Nations Mandate was coming to an end, the UN offered the Jews of Palestine and the Arabs of Palestine a Two-State solution, the former were prepared to accept it, the latter refused and opted to go to war. Chose violence and you must accept the consequences - their aim at the time, clearly stated was that they were going to drive the Jews of Palestine into the sea - in short Shaw they were promising annihilation.

Chose violence as the Leaders of the Palestinian Arabs have done and attack a sovereign state then accept that they will retaliate and they may well be far better at retaliating than you are at attacking and that is what has proved to be the case over the past 68 years.

Second World War:

British Civilian Casualty figures - 67,200
German Civilian Casualty figures - 1,550,000 to 2,950,000

They seem a bit disproportionate to you Shaw? War is not a game, it is not subject to equivalence.

The Israeli's unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, since then {Having been given everything they said they wanted} over 15,000 missiles of some sort or another have been launched from Gaza and fired into Israel, indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians. If you are fussed about civilians being killed in Gaza Shaw get Corbyn to have a word with his Hamas mates and tell them to stop all attacks on Israel and just in case they for some reason or another cannot do that then tell them that if they want to fight then have them stop hiding behind civilians when they do it.