"274" takes up a lot less space and is far more informative than "scores of". I hate the word phrase "scores of". When media outlets want to manipulate public sentiment they use to make the number in question seem a lot (if not vastly) smaller.

I think when the average American hears the word "scores" they very roughly imagine something like 50 to 100. That sounds a hell of a lot better than the first media reports that indicated the estimated number was - at the time - probably ~200.

And even now when the number is 274 - they still use it!

Whats with the new phrase "scores of" - seems like it is repeated everywhere among supposedly independent news institution, this one from NYT

It's almost if someone is "manufacturing consent"

Maybe I am wrong here, but last I heard, all these "hostages" were actually POWs as in they were active Israeli "Defense" Force members captured by militants belonging to Hamas or other allied armed resistance groups. Military members who are captured are prisoners of war, not "hostages" under the Geneva convention. I mostly just bring this up constantly to forcefully remind the Nazis online that these weren't just happy little innocent kids captured (these specific people). And also to remind them that KHamas could have, and by many people's logic should have, simply executed the IOF soldiers for all the war crimes they participated in upon Palestinians. And yet they chose to abide by the laws of war as far as that goes. Just little sprinkles of "hmm, interesting... the barbarians had the perfect opportunity to do horrible barbaric things, yet did not... hmm..." to enrage dying, lead-poisoned boomer brains online. Even the light suggestion that everyone in the IOF deserves their own tribunal at this point is enough to send many off into incoherent racist rants.

four score and seven dead arabs ago

All we can do is keep marching, agitating, fighting. Because Israel has, against all odds, brought a reckoning upon it that I never thought I'd see.

The state now can't survive long term, and now thebonly question is how it falls and if it can be done with maximum equity and minimum bloodshed. We can pay a part in making the state collapse internally.

Because the other option is a regional war and possibly a short terror by the oppressed Palestinians, despite the infinite forbareance and compassion and mercy they've shown so far. And who could blame them?

There were some 400 non fatal casualties as well that will probably die due to lack of medical care in the next few days. So even that number is already kinda sugar coating it.

The honest way to report it would be 13 score and 14 dead Palestinians for a fifth of a score of PoWs.