OK, I take your point. And really, I didn't intend to have a political argument, just to identify the political dimensions of statistics. (Of course, the Israe

OK, I take your point. And really, I didn't intend to have a political argument, just to identify the political dimensions of statistics. (Of course, the Israeli-Arab conflict doesn't encapsulate the 'entire history' of the Jewish/Palestinian-Arab conflict either, some of whose bloodiest events happened before 1948. But that doesn't alter its magnitude.)