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How is the white collar/blue collar example bogus? You can't just say it is bad, show it.
A main difference between white and blue collar crime is the power and resources involved. If a blue collared worker needs to get money, he or she will most likely be forced to take it individually, which will usually involve some sort of forceful method such as an armed robbery. A white collared worker does not have to do that. He or she can use his or her resources to slyly take money away from a great number of people without violence.
The same can be applied to the Palestine/Israeli situation. The only way Palestinians can attack Israel is by physical force, usually by terrorist attacks. This is directly comparable to a stick up where one person or a small group will get physically hurt at one moment. While Israel can cut off supplies to the entire Palestinian region which hurts millions of people for a long time but usually does not involve direct physical attacks like a white collared worker can steal from thousands of people over a period of time without physical violence.
So, if Israel has the power and resources to avoid direct physical attacks, why would they use them just like why would a white collared worker get money by an armed robbery when he or she can use other methods? That is why comparing individual deaths or war tactics is pointless in this debate. We have two completely different styles of warfare so most "stats" are just picking out a biased comparison that will hurt one group while leaving the other unhurt.
I am not getting into proactive and reactionary attacks with this since that is just justification for attacks and have nothing to do with the overall tactics used by either side.
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