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Thread #47252   Message #705886
Posted By: Wolfgang
07-May-02 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who Are the Terrorists? Part 111
Subject: RE: BS: Who Are the Terrorists? Part 111
So long ago I posted the last time, but I do want to follow up on what I wrote.

It's alright, Carol, and if you had the impression that I more often have corrected informations supporting the cause of the Palestinians that impression is true. Deep in my heart I have a pro Israel bias for several reasons but I don't want to go into that now.

As for the numbers, those statistics you cited very shortly after my last post in the last thread I find much more reliable than those on the first site and I am grateful for finding them this way.

They avoid most of the errors of the other site: They don't have overlapping categories without stating it, they present data not selectively and their numbers have no easy to spot inconsistencies. In addition to that they report how they have treated not easy to classify cases. All these details make this site look much more reliable for me.

However, I am still missing a bit like number of Palestinians killed by Palestinians for cooperation and who from they got their data. What I am missing most is an assessment how reliable their numbers are. Give and take 10% would be something else than give or take factor 2.

Having said that I have not yet seen a source I consider more reliable than the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.

Wolfgang