Saturday, March 20, 2010

Not Millions

In a nice letter in the New York Times today, Barry A. Wadler of Fort Lee, N.J. writes:

...The tragic refugee problem is one that the Arab nations themselves have prevented from resolution. In the same years that millions of Jews, unwanted in other nations, were systematically absorbed by Israel, millions of Palestinians under Arab dominion were systematically not absorbed by the surrounding Arab nations. This festering issue serves the Arab agenda.


What?

millions of Palestinians under Arab dominion were systematically not absorbed

Millions?

Maybe you mean that today there are millions but in that early period, there were

from about 520,000 (Israeli sources) to 726,000 (UN sources) to over 800,000 (Arab sources) refugees


One should be careful with numbers.

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