Palestine 1 x 0 Brazil

Even here in Latin America, far away from the Middle East, the palestinian propaganda is strong. I keep hearing about how palestinian “poverty” and “desperation with the occupation” turns normal people into homicidal suicide-bombers.

But exactly how poor and desperate are those palestinians? Are they really so much worse off than the rest of us?
Data from the UN Index of Human Development and the World Health Organization show a different story.

LIFE EXPECTANCY

Palestinian territories: 72.7

Brazil: 70.8

ADULT LITERACY

Palestinian territories: 92.4

Brazil: 88.6

PEOPLE WITH ACCESS TO AN IMPROVED WATER SOURCE:

Palestinian territories: 92%

Brazil: 90%

PROBABILITY OF NOT SURVIVING PAST AGE 40

Palestinian territories: 5.3%

Brazil: 10.3%

In fact, about the only item where Brazil is clearly superior is in its GDP, thanks to the size of its economy (and the virtual nonexistence of a Palestinian economy).

The full data here:

Brazil (Human Development Report)

Palestinian territories (Human Development Report)
Palestinian territories (World Health Organization report)

 

Rousseau and the Left

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s idea of the noble sauvage is certainly one of the origins of modern victimology.

Could Rousseau be the stepfather of modern leftists?

Neo-neocon offers interesting thoughts.

 

90.7%

After a year full of scandals (where not even a single politician involved was sent to jail), Brazilian deputies have voted to double… their own salary.

The joyful reaction of the population didn’t take long.

 

Holocaust? What’s that?

“The Holocaust never happened. Let’s do it again!”

That seems to be the message of the recent conference hatefest in Teheran. The regime had already promoted, months before, a Holocaust Cartoon Contest, where the winners’ main theme seemed to be the comparison of “palestinian suffering” to the extermination of jews during the Holocaust. But if the Holocaust never happened, how can you make that comparison?

What a humorless bunch. At least the “Jewish Antisemitic Cartoon Contest” had some irony.