Claimed Factual Errors The following is the piece that  above refers to as original research  I have placed it here so that it can be built upon and deuglyified  Many critics have contended that the article contains numerous factual errors  What follows is an attempt to list those claimed factual errors the source of that claim and whether that error can be substantiated or disproved   In fact the whole paper is full of errors large and small A matter as simple as Israels current population is incorrectly stated at  The number is precise but inaccurate Israels population recently reached eight million a fact that was reported extensively in the press and could have been verified with very little effort  Ilana Freedman A dangerously wrong study on the Israel lobby March    According to the CIA World Fact Book the current population of Israel is  as claimed by Mearsheimer and Walt