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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Ingo Althofer

Date: 03:41:49 06/17/04

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On June 15, 2004 at 18:01:03, Amir Ban 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:


Sorry, but I found your posting only now.


>>>>*****************************************
>>>>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price ***
>>>>*****************************************
>>>>...
>>>>...
>>>>"Applicants have to be Arabs, and they need to have
>>>>permanent residence within 34° and 36° East, and
>>>>within 28° and 34 ° North."
>>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>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.


>>>I think it would be better if you extend your prize to the whole Arab world. >>>The following are the Arab countries (members of the Arab League):
>>>
>>>Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,
>>>Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (represented by PLO), Qatar, >>>Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
>>
>>No intention on my side for such an extension. There would
>>be no chance for me to check what is happening in all these
>>states.
>
>If I understood your objective you are aiming at Palestinians who are in
>confrontation with Israel.

No, another miss-understanding.
The price aims at Palestinians who are living in the region, independently if
they are in confrontation or in friendship with Israel.

>... It should include Palestinians who live in the occupied territories
>or those who have UNRWA refugee status in neighbor Arab countries (Jordan,
>Syria, Lebanon). That's about 5 million people.

Right. These people I have in mind, and they are hopefully all included by the
geographic definition:
>>>>"Applicants ... need to have
>>>>permanent residence within 34° and 36° East, and
>>>>within 28° and 34 ° North."

Ingo.



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