>It will be tough to work with UN population numbers. The
>"refugees" have a history of being born and not ever dieing.

Yes well, Israel seems to be doing its best to rectify that problem. I wouldn't be suprised if Israel uses that reasoning as an explanation for why there are so many missing Palestinains; you know, that they never existed to begin with.

>It will be possible to determine
>approximate numbers by careful interview of objective (is
>there such) census takers.

I'm sure it won't be the Palestinains who conduct the count for the UN. But how interesting that you imply a "numbers tampering issue" without even knowing who will be doing the counting.

>A small point, hal90000 sent reports of people huddling in
>their basements, few houses in this region have basements!

A big point, they do now!