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The Economist has published a  piece  pretending to answer why Israel is killing so many Palestinian children, or, as the British journal puts it, why  “children are a very high proportion of the victims of war in Gaza.”  The authors note that  “in Ukraine, a conflict between two much bigger powers, children account for fewer than 550 of roughly 9,800 civilian fatalities over a much longer period.”  Hence, they venture,  “Gaza’s enormous child death toll reflects, among other things, its especially youthful demography.” Brazenly, the article removes the actual killers from the picture (the children fall victim to “the war,” not to the Israelis), gives just enough room to US President Joe Biden’s mendacious doubting of Palestinian victim figures (in reality certain to be under-counts) to make the reader wonder, and never mentions the true answer: so many children are getting killed because Israel commits one war crime after another against civilian...