I didn't dismiss them, I pointed them out and said they would increase the total from a modern reckoning, and said the right categorization of the scope of the expulsions ranges from towns to empires, as Grosser neutrally stated. There simply is no continuous concept of the word "country" over the period that would allow us to claim 109 countries on the data we have. I recognize the problem but I believe I dealt with it sufficiently.

Add: Takeaway, there may possibly have been 1,000 official governmental acts against Jews in thousands of years, but without any methodological comparison to official governmental acts against anyone else (from municipal on up) that data is worthless. At current rates, American liberals will have conducted 1,000 official government acts against Christians, and Trump will have conducted 1,000 official government against against (109) other nations, any day now.

I didn't dismiss them, I pointed them out and said they would increase the total from a modern reckoning, and said the right categorization of the scope of the expulsions ranges from towns to empires, as Grosser neutrally stated. There simply is no continuous concept of the word "country" over the period that would allow us to claim 109 countries on the data we have. I recognize the problem but I believe I dealt with it sufficiently.