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2nd Thoughts
Monday Dec 10, 2012
The November 2012 UN resolution that granted observer status to Palestine as a non-member state is in effect void ab-initio due to Abbas' lack of authority to represent all Palestinians and Hamas' rejection of the fundamentals of the resolution.
When Hams leaders publicly reject its basic terms, one need not be a lawyer to question the validity of the November 29 UN resolution A/67/L.28 that granted observer status to...
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Tuesday Nov 13, 2012
By Maurice Ostroff
Believe it or not, contrary to recent sensational headlines, if the highly publicized poll on purported apartheid in Israel is examined objectively, Israelis can be proud of the results.
Directly contradicting the distorted interpretation by columnist Gideon Levy in Haaretz, an objective analysis of the results of the poll reveals that the great majority of Israelis are not racists and that the level of racism in...
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Sunday Nov 04, 2012
When is a poll a "push poll"?
By Maurice Ostroff
With the surfeit of public opinion polls to which we are increasingly subjected, it is important to consider how to evaluate them. When we learn about a poll from media reports we are completely dependent not only on the credibility of the pollster, but also on the reporters' understanding of the results as well as their ability to avoid injecting personal prejudices into their...
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2012
Response from the statistician dealing with the poll about Israel that reverberated around the world
As a matter of courtesy I sent a draft of my open letter to Professor Goldblum. He referred it to the "chief statistician" whose reply is reproduced below.
Maurice
Dear Amiram,
Here are the replies to the questions that you sent me together with the letter from Mr. Maurice Ostroff that you forwarded me.
1. In reply to Mr. Ostroff question, from the data that I got from Dialog, the sample included 82 Olim from...
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2012
The poll was reported by columnist Gideon Levy in Haaretz under the misleading headline "Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel"
By arrangement this letter is addressed to Professor Amiram Goldblum who has agreed to distribute it to all members of the group that organized the poll.
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From Maurice Ostroff ...
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In commenting on current affairs, special care is taken to maintain credibility by checking the veracity of all data presented as fact and by...
In commenting on current affairs, special care is taken to maintain credibility by checking the veracity of all data presented as fact and by adhering to rational, civil discourse and intellectual honesty. Efforts are made to acknowledge and suppress known biases and to follow the facts wherever they lead.
