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This is obvious weasel wording. during the writing of the resolution it was made clear that it meant all the territories.

This is how it was phrased:

>(i) Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;

any native enlgish speaker can read the declaration and see from the contest that it clear that all territories taken during the war are meant.

The Israelis came up with this facetious excuse to try to encroach on more land.

indeed, when one says "Dogs must be kept on the lead near ponds in the park."

it does not mean, for any sane person that some dogs shouldn't be kept on the lead near ponds in the park.

Also:

"it is an accepted rule that the various language versions must be considered together, with the ambiguities of one version elucidated by the other"

Plus, the reason that Israel must give back the territory is the prohibition of acquiring land by force.

If you can't acquire land by force. you can't acquire any land by force. it's illogical for the rule to only apply on some but not all land taken by force.

I used to watch a lot of lectures at a high speed. But I've came to realize that the faster I watch something, the faster I forget it.

It is like the infromation doesn't have the time to settle in my memory, despite me understanding it.

It's maybe because when things are slow, I can use the dead time to think about the implication/corner cases of what's being said.

In the same way it was never confirmed that Israel has nuclear weapons?
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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:11PM (#20636016)
you named al khawarizmi, which is the only one that I'm really familiar with.

he spoke arabic. Most of his major works were in arabic, in Baghdad. and he has an arabic name.

Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:14AM (#20632341)
> If Brin lived in Russia, spoke Russian, and wrote books in Russian we wouldn't call him American just because he wrote a few books in English too.

But if he spoke Enlgish, had an English name, lived his professional life in America. and most of his major works were in Enlgish.

I'd supposed you'd call him an "Anglophone" academic, which is the sense that Arab is used in.

Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:09AM (#20632322)
Tunisia, Lybia. 99% of Tunisians self identify as Arabs
Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:11AM (#20632129)
I hold it to be obvious that I'm talking about the scientists (That lived in the Islamic Golden age) not about modern day Iran.

Plus Most of them were not born in Iran proper.

Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:49PM (#20630446)
arab is not used as an ethnicity but refers to someone who speaks arabic as a mother tongue. In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab.