Interestingly, if you do a very simple estimate, by only using current war statistics and assuming female deaths to be all civilians and male civilian deaths to be equal to female civilian deaths in each category (that is if a civilian is killed they are equally likely to be male or female), you get a similar estimate of 2.9 ratio. Which is not as good an assumption as using past war data, but is decent enough and corroborates your conclusion.
The problem is that there are consistently more male civilians killed than female in the past wars; so this method is going to under-estimate the number of male civilians. But yes, it does corroborate my conclusion of about 3:1 or worse.
Damn, Palestinians really need to give up their irredentist fantasies about conquering pre-1967 Israel so that these casualties can finally come to an end..
Interestingly, if you do a very simple estimate, by only using current war statistics and assuming female deaths to be all civilians and male civilian deaths to be equal to female civilian deaths in each category (that is if a civilian is killed they are equally likely to be male or female), you get a similar estimate of 2.9 ratio. Which is not as good an assumption as using past war data, but is decent enough and corroborates your conclusion.
The problem is that there are consistently more male civilians killed than female in the past wars; so this method is going to under-estimate the number of male civilians. But yes, it does corroborate my conclusion of about 3:1 or worse.
Damn, Palestinians really need to give up their irredentist fantasies about conquering pre-1967 Israel so that these casualties can finally come to an end..