Watching behaviour can be confusing when you’re expecting the participants to be planning for the long-term. For example the Israelis: despite seventy years of siege status, they alone in the Middle-East – with wealth and strength from their modern economy, western democracy and rule-of-law – have power over their future. The best thing they could …
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Not Keeping the Ratio Up
Israel is beginning to let its people down, statistically too. There’s a new intifada. By last night 87 Palestinians had died in Gaza; Hamas killed 7 Israelis. That’s a kill-ratio of 12.4-to-1. However according to the UN in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict since 2008 there have been 5600 Palestinian and 250 Israeli deaths. That’s 22.4-to-1. I’ll …