Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 08:47:53 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 05:31:44, Ingo Althofer wrote: >On June 15, 2004 at 05:05:55, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>On June 15, 2004 at 00:28:21, Ingo Althofer wrote: >>>On June 14, 2004 at 16:25:23, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>>>On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >>>>>... >>>Maybe I step in a pothole now or show big lack of understanding >>>the "local" circumstances, but I want to allow citizens of Israel >>>as long as they are non-jewish arabs. >>>When this is nonsense, please explain why. >> >>An Arab living in Israel isn't much difference from an Arab living in Germany or >>Netherlands. And in another post I read that you don't consider an Arab living >>in Netherlands eligible... > >For Arabs living in Europe it is much more normal to be in contact with "local" >programmers, in my opinion. (Shortly after the first announcement in April I got >an Email from inside Germany asking if Palestinians in Germany count - the >sender is programmer and has Palestine friends, who ask for asylum in Germany.) > >I don't want to encourage brain drain for Palestine. And a price winner from >within Israel - say with computer chess education from Bar Ilan University - >might be a good signal for other Palestinians. I don't think it would be harder for an Arab living in Israel to write a chess program than an Arab living in Germany. For example, the Haifa University has a large Arab population (I don't know the exact figure, but walking in the campus it seems that about half the students are Arabs). It would be very easy for an Israeli Arab to win the prize. He can come to me in Bar-Ilan University's computer science department; I will explain to him what to do and how to do, and in a few months he will achieve the goal. You want to encourage the "other side" to write a chess program. In other words, you want to see a program participating under the PA flag, not under Israeli flag. An Israeli Arab will participate under Israeli flag, and his program will be considered an Israeli program. > >Ingo Althofer.
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