Again, thank you all for your replies. You have a point in that, but I must disagree. Because the only way to avoid this circus repeating itself the next time someone jayjg-like comes around and inserts the 472,000 claim, is to already have it there explained with the caveats. Yes, that would be very useful! But even *if* the number is there, it doesn't change the fact that the report was written before September 16, 1948. Noone should have to read "472,000" and "UN Mediator" and falsely believe that that was an *estimate* for the *total* number of Palestinian refugees created. I believe someone who doesn't know very much about the Palestine war will get that impression. That suspicion I base on this: "As for the date [September 16, 1948], as I understand it most Palestinians had left by then." That is what this issue is really about since both me and Jayjg has edited from the assumption that Mitchell Bard is not lying. But how we want to present Bard's number differ. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estimates_of_the_Palestinian_Refu… The green in that diff is how I want it presented and the yellow is how Jayjg wants it presented. -- mvh Björn

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:27:18 -0700, slimvirgin(a)gmail.com <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote: My version suggests that the only source to the claim that there were 472,000 Palestinian refugees in total created in the Palestine war is Mitchell Bard. In fact the only source has to be him since Count Folke Bernadotte cannot by applying pure logic have done such a claim. So, while the figure 472,000 might very well have appeared in Bernadotte's report, it *must* have been used in an entierly different context than in which Bard uses it in. It can *not* be written that Bernadotte estimated that the total number of refugees was 472,000 because that is completely false. That is what is done in Jayjg's version. -- mvh Björn