By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
The study also found that Israel has achieved one of the lowest civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios in modern warfare, roughly 1.4 to 1, compared to figures as high as 5 to 1 in the Iraq War.
That same asymmetry has surfaced repeatedly on the red carpet. At the 2024 Academy Awards, stars including Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef wore a red enamel pin distributed by the group Artists4Ceasefire, showing a hand with a black heart inside a red circle, meant to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of the hostages.
To many Jewish observers, the image evoked something else: the 2000 lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah, in which a mob displayed blood-soaked hands from a window to a cheering crowd below, one of the defining images of the Second Intifada.