--- Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
The Israel is an apartheid state? Hardly. And even
if
it were true, it shouldn't be on this list.
You can read
http://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi?Middle_East_Policy_(Chomsky)
on "Sourceberg" and see if you agree or not. Its
short, I transcribed it myself, and Noam gave it an ok
to publish as a "rough." Afterward you can email him,
and if you dont insult his intelligence, he'll write
you back. Hurry--the old man's gettin' on...
Israel's
statistics are perfectly valid, as are pre-1950 US
statistics.
Well, in a general sense they are what they are-- we
cant be too picky, I agree. But I don't object to the
.il statistics -- I object to them being installed en
masse by a bot. To allow such is to validate those
statistics in a way which they do not deserve.
Even at the beginning of the US's
history,
African American slaves were counted in the US
Census
for purposes of the size of the electoral college,
albeit only as 2/3 of a person. If you have actual
proof that Israel is messing up its statistics,
please
post it here.
Well, someone else corrected you here. As for "proof"
I will use the proof of "no proof" -- there is no
proof that they are valid, and there is every reason
to believe they are suspect.
<rant>
To suggest that an apartheid state can on the one
hand--deny access to healthcare to its non-citizens,
starve them out, bulldoze homes, stifle a population
of millions like it was drowning a puppy in a plastic
grocery bag, not to mention cut electricity and block
access to
Wikipedia.org, and the Arabic language
version of the Power Rangers-- and yet 'can still keep
accurate "statistics" on population data,' is calling
on the community to be at best naive.. (look it up).
</rant>
The statistics as they were originally described added
up to 100.5 percent as I recall from the thread.
Where do you think the UN gets its statistics from?
They don't conduct their own census.
In New York
State, there was a small controversey over Census
and
old people going to florida while they recieved the
Census in the mail in their official New York
residence and missed the deadline.
But there were no
UN statistics to back this up. The UN could care
less
about this obscure data.
You're right-The UN could care less, and neither
should the WP. (But not "care less" in terms of
simply including it with a bot. ;)
<rant>
The only data I could find from the UN on Israel
(aside from useless rural vs. urban data) was that
there were about 6 million inhabitants in 2000. But
Israel, evil apartheid Israel, said that there were
6.5 million in 2002! Oh no! We can't use their data
because the obviously fabricated an other half a
million Jews for their evil plan.
</rant>
LDan
I didnt say such a plan was evil-- I simply said that
humans have a history of fabricating stuff. You may
be too young to believe that, but its true! And thanks
for the <rant> tags -- nice touch.
~S~
"Making it up since 1913."
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