Norway’s prime minister says the Israeli army’s response to the deadly Hamas attack that killed 1,400 people and saw over 230 abducted by terrorists has been disproportionate, and denounces a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza.

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    1 year ago

    The Demographics don’t back that up. It seems more like those who can emigrate away from the Strip as soon as they can and those who stay have had an incredibly high birth rate. That’s why the strip has almost doubled in population since 2000.

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      1 year ago

      That’s Wikipedia. And with a reported death rate around 600 per 100,000 they’re either the healthiest country in the world or these numbers are highly suspect.

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        1 year ago

        It could be that way, but the historical numbers are from the PCBS they could be wrong systemically; but I don’t know of a better source.

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          1 year ago

          It still smells like a massive undercount. If you gave me that number for a Western country it would be ridiculous too. It’s just not a realistic number.

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            1 year ago

            It seems more like if the number had agreed with your assertion instead of refuted it you’d have accepted the source as generally accurate.

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              1 year ago

              I can’t offer you any proof because this is the Internet but I just really don’t like bad data. It gets used for rhetoric all the time and it’s exhausting to track down. In this case though, for reference, a normal deaths per 100k in a well supplied, peaceful, western country, is 800 to 900. To put forward these numbers in a poorly supplied middle eastern warzone is ridiculous.

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                1 year ago

                but I just really don’t like bad data. It gets used for rhetoric all the time and it’s exhausting to track down

                Okay, but you’re using no data for bad rhetoric.

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                    1 year ago

                    I’d certainly love to see a summary of it.

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            1 year ago

            Do you have a better source, or an explanation for why this agency would lie?