--- Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@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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