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West Bank's Jewish Population Swells Despite Expulsion
Arutz 7 ^ | Feb 07, '06 | Staff

Posted on 02/09/2006 3:57:46 PM PST by Nachum

Despite the forced removal of 10,000 residents, the construction of the Partition Wall and ongoing terror attacks, the number of Jews living in Yesha (Judea and Samaria) increased in 2005.

According to figures released by the Peace Now group and confirmed by the Central Bureau of Statistics, 12,000 new residents moved into Judea and Samaria, resulting in a net population growth following the expulsion of close to 10,000 people from communities in Gaza and northern Samaria. The number of Jews living in Judea and Samaria, not counting eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods, is 250,000.

The report also says that the natural growth of the Jewish population in Judea and Samaria continues at a far greater rate than that of those residing within the pre-1967 Green Line. Residents of Yesha have an average annual growth rate of 5.5 percent, whereas the rest of Israel has a 1.8 growth rate.

Additionally, despite the destruction of permanent structures in several outlying neighborhoods, 33 of the 120 long-standing communities Peace Now defines as "illegal outposts" have built permanent structures on their land, including synagogues, mikvaot (ritual baths) and community social halls.

The Peace Now report also laments the continued construction in Jewish towns located on the eastern side of the Partition Wall. Though the government has largely frozen funding to towns located outside the fence-route, private contractors and individuals have continued to build in places like Tekoa, Beit El, Itamar, Yitzhar, Hevron and Ofra.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: despite; expulsion; israel; jewish; population; swells; westbank; yeshas
Better build good fences that keep out riot police horses.
1 posted on 02/09/2006 3:57:48 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
Good for them, drive the !@#$%^&* Palestinians out and send them out into the desert for 40 years. Better yet, 400 years.....no, better yet, 4000 years
2 posted on 02/09/2006 4:00:16 PM PST by stm (It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
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To: Nachum
AINO.
3 posted on 02/09/2006 4:08:25 PM PST by Ninian Dryhope ("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
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To: Nachum
The Peace Now report also laments the continued construction in Jewish towns located on the eastern side of the Partition Wall.

The self-despising so-called Jews in Peace Now "lament" Jews living on Jewish land. But are they banned as an organization? No, they get Israeli government funding--a group devoted to the self-destruction of Israel.

4 posted on 02/09/2006 4:15:16 PM PST by montag813
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To: Nachum

Hitler loved groups like peace now, called them "useful idiots"; all these peace groups are but fools using taxpayers monies to advance their destructive socialist/communist agendas.


5 posted on 02/09/2006 4:25:22 PM PST by ohhhh (Nevertheless, come Lord Jesus.)
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To: ohhhh

"Useful idiots" was a quote from Lenin to describe the Wests's liberal apologists that defended radical's crimes and attacked Capitalism.


6 posted on 02/09/2006 4:52:55 PM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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To: Nachum

"Residents of Yesha have an average annual growth rate of 5.5 percent, whereas the rest of Israel has a 1.8 growth rate. "

It would be curious to know the growth rate of "peace now" members.
after homosexuality, transgenderism, non marriage , double income no kids and especially yerida, I would expect the growth rate to be negative.


7 posted on 02/09/2006 5:13:29 PM PST by avile
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To: avile

Anything below 2.1 is negative. It means it's shrinking. 2.1 children per woman is the replacement rate. Above 2.1 is growth, 2.1 is stable, below 2.1 is shrinking.


8 posted on 02/09/2006 5:22:58 PM PST by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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9 posted on 02/09/2006 5:35:16 PM PST by SJackson ("Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," protesters in Ramallah)
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To: Nachum

There is no "West Bank". That was a Soviet construct. There is only Arab occupied Judea and Samaria..


10 posted on 02/09/2006 10:49:16 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Nachum

**The number of Jews living in Judea and Samaria, not counting eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods, is 250,000.**

Prayers for all Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and all of Israel. Glad to hear their numbers are inscreasing.


11 posted on 02/09/2006 11:03:32 PM PST by Pepper777
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To: sheik yerbouty

The article originally was entitled "Yesha", but I thought that many FReepers would not understand.


12 posted on 02/10/2006 10:52:30 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

No problem..


13 posted on 02/10/2006 11:21:12 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Alexander Rubin
You are confusing fertility rate and growth rate.

It is well known that a fertility rate of 2.1 is the replacement rate, however it obviously does not take into consideration immigration and emigration.
growth rate does , hence the basis of my original question which you did not answer.
14 posted on 02/10/2006 3:20:13 PM PST by avile
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To: avile

Ah, good point. Didn't think about that.


15 posted on 02/10/2006 3:24:32 PM PST by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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