Delirium wrote:
Steve Vertigum wrote:
69
municipalities, 141 local councils, and 53
regional councils, for a total of 263 articles. The local councils and
regional councils contain smaller towns within them, but I don't have
data on
them, so at present any information about them will have to be added
manually.
I see-- and what treatment are you giving to towns
which exist in violation of the various UN and
US-Israel agreements over the years?
Its only been the past couple months that Israel has
bent to international pressure to dismantle a
settlement -- how are you treating these? Are these
registered as non-existent? Are you adding the former
Arabic names of towns, recently and not-so recently
incorporated into Israel?
First of all, he's already mentioned that data on the territories (West
Bank, Gaza Strip) is not included, which is where most of these issues
would arise. The remaining disputed areas are the Golan Heights and
East Jerusalem; in both cases the issues could be solved simply by
linking to those two articles, which explain the disputed situation.
Just to clarify, and to give Steve more ammunition to attack the data
:-), there's no data on *Palestinians* in the territories, but there is
data on Israeli settlements. (That is, it's data on citizens of Israel,
so it includes data on Druze in the Golan and Arabs in East Jerusalem.)
For the settlements in the territories, the fact that they're in the
territories is noted in the article.
If anyone has data on Ramallah, Nablus, etc., please add it. It's just
that the Israeli government doesn't collect it.
-- Adam Raizen