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Half-Baked Stats
 This Boston Globe op-ed argues:
Although Gaza daily requires 680,000 tons of flour to feed its population, Israel had cut this to 90 tons per day by November 2007, a reduction of 99 percent.
But Martin Kramer astutely points out:
You don't need to be a math genius to figure out that if Gaza has a population of 1.5 million, as the authors also note, then 680,000 tons of flour a day come out to almost half a ton of flour per Gazan, per day.
What other half-baked stats are the MSM accepting as canon?
(Hat tip: Daled Amos)
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Applying a little more math skill, you would figure out that even that reduced 90 tons a day for 1.5 million people is more than 3/4 pound a week per person. 90 US tons = 180,000 US pounds per day => 1.25 million pounds per week => .84 pounds per week per person.
I would be hard-pressed to use up that much flour in a week.
Posted by: Tracey at Feb 2, 2008 2:32:54 PM
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