(Israel Hayom) Yoram Ettinger - The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics often manipulates statistics to misrepresent reality and mislead observers in a way that is deliberate and systematic. There is a gap of 1.15 million people between the number of Arabs the Palestinians claim are living in the West Bank (2.9 million) and the well-documented number of 1.75 million. In June 1997, in the first Palestinian census in the West Bank and Gaza, 648,000 people were artificially added by including 325,000 overseas residents; counting the 210,000 Jerusalem Arabs twice, as they were also included in the Israeli census; and documented inconsistencies (of 113,000 people) between the PCBS and the Palestinian Health and Education ministries and Central Election Commission. There is also an inherent under-documentation of deaths (represented by the inclusion of Arabs born in 1847 in the June 2007 census).
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