 | By Miriam Shaviv
June 25, 2010 | Share |
Here's a riddle.
According to the CIA World Factbook (2009), life expectancy in Lebanon is 73.66. Egypt's is 71.12. Turkey's is 71.96. Iran's is 71.14. Pakistan's is 64.49.
What is life expectancy in the West Bank and Gaza?
(Answer here.)
Joshua18
25 June, 2010 - 15:11
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A truly excellent piece by Jonathan Hoffman more or less on this very topic:
Goldsmiths, Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto
http://tinyurl.com/2u7g2jw
Regarding the exact point at issue, Jonathan Hoffman informs us that life expectancy for a woman in the Warsaw Ghetto was "3 years at most" compared to 75 for a Palestinian woman today in Gaza (Source: UN).