Truth, strike two

[ciphergoth]

Thanks for some interesting and surprising responses to the JFK question. At the risk of creating more heat than light, let me try another example, one that I think might be a little less comfortable to be neutral about.

It seems that many people believe that on the morning of September 11, 2001, four thousand or more Israelis who were working at the World Trade Center did not show up for work.

Are those people wrong?

(Update: amended as per ajva's caveat)

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

I'd say that facts that are either true or false are
1)>4000 Israeli nationals were employed in the WTC
2)>4000 of those people were supposed to be in the WTC on that day, at that time
3)They were not in the WTC on that day, at that time

We may, or may not, have actual evidence on these points (I certainly don't possess any relevant primary sources) with which to reach a conclusion; but they are things I would expect to be either true or false.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, if 1,2 and 3 were all proven true then that still isn't evidence that there was a conspiracy. Maybe the local kosher butcher was selling gone off meat (as an example situation where many Jews might be unexpectedly not-at-work).