>Not to dredge up old battles, but...
>When NATO bombed Kosovo, the Yugoslav authorities had killed about 2000
>Albanians over the course of 12 months in putting down the guerrilla
>uprising. That's about 170 a month.
>So far, the Israelis have killed over 100 Palestinians in about two weeks.
>A case for intervention?
Absolutely if it continues.
First step would be to cut-off all economic aid, then sanctions, then ground troops if needed to protect the PA authority if necessary.
Although the issue in Kosovo was not just the deaths but the escalation in Kosovars fleeing the country under pressure from the government and the general cultural repression. Murder is bad but when linked to a ramping up of cultural suppression of language rights and other self-determination, it moves to a different category. Israel has engaged in cultural repression verging on cultural genocide in the past, but they are still far from that point in the current conflict, but a rightwing turn by the Israeli government could take things to that point.
-- Nathan Newman