Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 09:01:55 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 11:47:53, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >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. If you can find a real Palestinian from these refugee camps you get my extra 100€. Please teach him and then he might participate in the next WCCCCCCC. But no Israeli - because this is about Palestinians. However if you become Wch you get also an extra prize, be assured. So, hurry up and begin your work.
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