[Maths-Education] FW: article on jenin geometry

[Kassem Derek]

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From: indigo esmonde [mailto:esmonde@uclink4.berkeley.edu] 
Sent: 01 May 2002 02:05
To: isgem@nmsu.edu
Subject: article on jenin geometry 


someone just forwarded an interesting radical math article to an anti-war
list i'm on. it gives a statistical and geometric argument about what
happened in the Jenin refugee camp. I've included a link to the article and
the abstract below. i hope some of you find it useful...
indigo esmonde
 
http://www.zmag.org/weblinks/chandler-jeninanal.htm
<http://www.zmag.org/weblinks/chandler-jeninanal.htm> 
Abstract: Aerial photographs were posted on the
<http://www.idf.il/newsite/english/main.asp> Israel Defenses Forces web site
as evidence that the destruction in the Jenin refugee camp was on a small
scale, incompatible with claims that there was a massacre. However,
measurement of the area of destruction shown in the same photographs,
compared with the population density of the camp, actually lends credibility
to claims by Palestinians (and many international observers) that hundreds
of people were killed.