Gaza buried in flour?

Since Mohammad does not teach math, and it is not in the Koran, I see that it is still not required or expected to be taught in Gaza. Of course, one might expect it to be taught in the West, but these ARE journalists. Math and journalism do not mix.

Gaza buried in flour [Martin Kramer's Sandbox]: "The Boston Globe has just run an op-ed under the headline 'Ending the Stranglehold on Gaza.' The authors are Eyad al-Sarraj, identified as founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and Sara Roy, identified as senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. The bias of the op-ed speaks for itself, and I won't even dwell on it. But I do want to call attention to this sentence:

Although Gaza daily requires 680,000 tons of flour to feed its population, Israel had cut this to 90 tons per day by November 2007, a reduction of 99 percent.

You don't need to be a math genius to figure out that if Gaza has a population of 1.5 million, as the authors also note, then 680,000 tons of flour a day come out to almost half a ton of flour per Gazan, per day."