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@9:46
Joe: ... And then you'll have two million people in half the size. So, that'll catapult Gaza to, pretty much, most densely populated place in the world, or thereabouts.
I had a look, purely out of curiosity, at the density of Gaza. The
Our World in Data site shows that the 2023 Population Density per square kilometre for:
Israel: 423.96
Lebanon: 523.36
Gaza: 892.23
So, if Israel takes the north half of Gaza for itself, Israel's number would change minutely to, maybe something like 417.63 people per sq.km as a complete guess. But for Gaza the number of people would roughly double to 1784.46 people per sq.km 'overnight'. That's a humanitarian catastrophe.
For comparison (bearing in mind that there are obvious places where people just can't or won't live) Bangladesh has 1328.68 people per sq.km. Malta: 1672.11 (which appears to be the most densely populated country that I can find). Egypt: 113.23. Japan: 338.26. India: 480.5. China: 151.86. Mauritius: 640.67. Netherlands: 523.26. France: 118.26. United Kingdom: 279.99. Germany: 238.4. Russia: 8.28. USA: 37.17. Canada: 4.33. Greenland: 0.14.
So, Gaza might very well become the most densely populated country on the planet.
Cities are a different matter. Mogadishu, Somalia? 33,244 people per sq.km.
@1:16:24
Joe: I just came across an example of a kind of... I don't know. Thinking? Can I call it 'thinking'? This is how a person, Michael Shermer, skeptic, professional skeptic, debunks things. Here's his hot take on Israel, on the conflict right now.
"There are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world.
There are 50 majority Muslim nations in the world.
There are 16.1 million Jews in the world.
There is 1 Jewish nation in the world.
Do not the Jews have the same right to nationhood as everyone else?"
When this was read, the first thing that came into my mind was that Michael has given permission to wipe the Palestinians off the map because there are so many more Muslims in the world. It's like he sees a lopsided 'Jew to Muslim ratio' like it's some weird math equation that needs to be balanced. ... I can't think of anything to say about such a ridiculous idea.
Thanks guys! Really good shows. Helped clarify things for me.