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Sometimes the Facts are Irrelevant

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Sometimes the Facts are Irrelevant

David J. Balan
Jan 19, 2007
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Sometimes the Facts are Irrelevant

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According to this article, 74% of Israeli Jewish high school kids say that Arabs are “unclean,” and 57% of Israeli Arab high school kids say the same thing about Jews. There are a lot of meaningful things that could be said here (all of them depressing), but surely none of them have anything at all to do with the factual question of the relative personal hygiene habits of the two groups.

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