tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post5407067643886982592..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Benny RevisitedMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-19878023521833896732008-06-12T06:42:00.000+10:002008-06-12T06:42:00.000+10:00Could you kindly comment, whether my details are c...Could you kindly comment, whether my details are correct in a dissident essay concerning the recent scaling up of production in the Israeli high Tech companies in:<BR/>http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-Jews-statistics.htm ?<BR/><BR/>E.G. "...Before the Second Intifada, there were nearly 200 Israeli companies listed in the Nasdaq, at the Intifada the count dropped to 70. (The number is still greater than from all the European countries combined). It is said that the dollars are green since the Americans pull them down from the tree raw and fresh. The start-ups are imported straight from the garage, and scaling up of production in the "conflict hotspot" has been considered impossible. But the new Millennium has brought a change in tide.<BR/><BR/>The population of Arabs under the Israeli government increased ten-fold in only 57 years. Palestinian life expectancy increased from 48 to 72 years in 1967-95. The death rate decreased by over 2/3 in 1970-90 and the Israeli medical campaigns decreased the child death rate from a level of 60 per 1000 in 1968 to 15 per 1000 in 2000 at the Westbank. (An analogous figure was 64 in Iraq, 40 in Egypt, 23 in Jordan, and 22 in Syria in 2000). During 1967-88 the amount of comprehensive schoold and second level polytechnic institutes for the Arabs was increased by 35%. During 1970-86 the proportion of Palestinian women at the West Bank and Gaza not having gone to school decreased from 67 % to 32 %. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in West Bank and Gaza increased in 1968-1991 from 165 US dollars to 1715 dollars (compare with 1630$ in Turkey, 1440$ in Tunis, 1050$ in Jordan, 800$ in Syria, 600$ in Egypt. and 400$ in Yemen)..."<BR/><BR/>Recovering from hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of the brain,<BR/><BR/>Pauli Ojala, evolutionary critic<BR/>Biochemist, drop-out (MSci-Master of Sciing)Ojalanpoikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01295332610492661778noreply@blogger.com