Posted on 06/09/2009 11:24:23 AM PDT by John Semmens
Citing what she called an “abnormally high birthrate for Jews,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bemoaned its impact on the Middle East “peace process.”
“If Israeli Jews reproduced at rates similar to American Jews, demographics alone would resolve the issue in a couple of generations,” Clinton asserted. “At current Jewish birthrates, though, we’ll see Jewish control of the Israeli government stretching out for centuries to come.”
Clinton suggested that “stepped up birth control measures among the Jews and opening the borders to Palestinian immigrants would help expedite a peaceful political settlement of the issue. It is the Jewishness of the Israeli state that is an anomaly and an offense to the dominant Muslim culture of the entire region. Once this is ended, Jews could live peaceably as a minority as they do in other Middle Eastern nations.”
Muslim birthrates in Israel still exceed those of Jews by 3.31 children per Muslim woman to 2.77 per Jewish woman. Since Israeli Muslims do have the right to vote, it is only a matter of time before they will constitute a majority in that country’s elections.
In related news, President Obama blamed the continued construction of Jewish homes in disputed areas of Israel for heightening tensions. “If the Jews would stop building these settlements Hamas and Hezbolah wouldn’t have to keep launching rockets to try to destroy or deter them,” Obama contended.
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Except that the Israeli Jews have been losing the “battle of the bedroom” for quite some time now; so the entire premise of the satirical article is a false premise.
Amazing how many people...
a) didn’t know that the reproductive representation was 180 degrees backwards.
b) didn’t recognize satire when it jumped up and bit them in the a$$.
It's supposed to be satire...mostly it's just stupid drivel.
She will however, as an Israeli female, have about 2.7 kids in her lifetime.
A Palestinian female of the same age would have about 4.0 children.
Contrary to most demographic predictions regarding the population statistics of Israel, a revolution of sorts is underway in the Jewish Israeli birthrate. According to a Health Ministry report, the Jewish Israeli birthrate is on the rise, while the Arab Israeli birthrate remains unchanged.
In Israel of 2003, 144,625 babies were born, representing an increase of 3.4% over 2002. A breakdown of the statistics reveals that the Jewish population saw an increase of 4.8% and the Arab population saw no change.
In addition, the Health Ministry reported, there was a notable decline in infant mortality in 2003. During the year, 718 newborns died, representing 4.96 deaths per every thousand live births. In 2002, the statistic was 5.5 per every thousand. Infant mortality among Arabs is double that among Jews. The most common cause of infant mortality for all populations is premature birth.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/67303
To be blunt, the arabs are horridly interbred and have tremendous birth defect rate. The result is, even with a high birth rate, the overall population increase is not there.
But the population growth rates I last saw showed about 3% for Israeli Jews and 5% population growth for Palestinians.
Those go by birthrate and don’t count actual survival.
Arab children die at amazing rates during the first 1-2 years.
On a related note, it’s actually the retarded or severely deformed that the arabs send for suicide missions. Many have no idea what is going on. (Not a factor in the population issue, but so disturbing. We would look for deformed/retarded teen boys at checkpoints specifically because they were used in this fashion.)
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