I was looking for dependent variables that were associated mainly with population and whose correlation with other variables could be factored out.

However I looked at the data, I came to the conclusion that the Arab proportion within the green line is at least 10% higher than the CBS indicates.

The CBS tends to over-count Jewish Israelis by counting as resident people who are not. It under-counts Arab Israelis because it treats as emigrants people who have only left temporarily. Yet such a bias does not explain the discrepancy, which probably comes to a large extent from OT Palestinians, who are living within the green line in defiance of Israeli law.

They did not possess nuclear weapons.

Isn't it time to really pressure Israel to let International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the precautions they have in place to prevent fundamentalists getting too close to the button?

I wonder if key people ( what we would call intellectuals in Europe) would read this article, and unlike Mr. Weiss, I have my doubts. They may well take SOG route and dismiss the article (without reading) as being published by "predictably anti-semitic leftwinger".

This way of pre-selecting reading materials is very common in my humble opinion.

While I can understand why average american has not taken his/hers pink spectacles off when it comes to Israel, I cannot believe that Israel Lobby can control the access to internet of entire chattering classes of the US.

With attitudes to Israel virtually unchanged since the WWW revolution, I can only conclude that people pre-select what they read on the Internet according to criteria set by their preconceived political ideas.

Did no one notice this amazing statement of one commenter? It is extraordinary to me that Jews accuse Arabs of barbarity then say things like this without realizing how he betrayed himself. This is a truly alien, unWestern kind of thinking. Who are we harboring in our midst? (Yes, I know not all Jews think this way.)