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To: anotherview

> In a very few years the majority of the population between the Jordan River and the sea will be Arab.

You are either ignorant of the true population statistics for greater Israel, or you don’t mind repeating a known lie because it supports your vision for the future.

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=46839

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DEMOGRAPHIC ASSUMPTIONS have played an increasing role in shaping national security policy since 1992. But what if these assumptions are dramatically wrong? For example, since the beginning of annual aliya in 1882 - and in contradiction to demographic projections - the Jewish population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean has grown 238-fold, while the Arab population increased only sixfold. Since 1948, the Jewish population has increased almost tenfold, and the Arab population has expanded threefold.

Israel’s demographers did not believe that a massive aliya would take place in the aftermath of the 1948/9 war. One million Jews arrived. They projected no substantial aliya from the communist bloc during the 1970s. Almost 300,000 Jews arrived. They dismissed the possibility of a massive aliya from the USSR, even if the gates were opened. One million olim relocated from the Soviet Union to the Jewish homeland during the 1990s.

Contrary to demographic assumptions, a rapid and drastic decline in Muslim fertility has been documented by the UN Population Division: Iran - 1.7 births per woman; Algeria - 1.8 births; Egypt - 2.5 births; Jordan - three births; and so on. The Arab fertility rate in pre-1967 Israel declined 20 years faster than projected, and Judea and Samaria Arab fertility has dropped below 4.5 births per woman, tending toward three births.

Precedents suggest that low fertility rates can rarely be reversed following a sustained period of significant reduction.

At the same time, the annual number of Jewish births increased by 45 percent between 1995 (80,400) and 2008 (117,000), mostly impacted by the demographic surge within the secular sector. The total annual Arab births in pre-1967 Israel stabilized around 39,000 during the same period, reflecting the successful Arab integration into the infrastructure of education, employment, health, trade, politics and sports.
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The audit of Palestinian and Israeli documentation exposes a 66% bend in the current number of Judea and Samaria Arabs - 1.55 million and not 2.5 million, as claimed by the PA. It certifies a solid 67% Jewish majority over 98.5% of the land west of the Jordan River (without Gaza), compared with a 33% and an 8% Jewish minority in 1947 and 1900, respectively, west of the Jordan River. An 80% majority is attainable by 2035 with the proper demographic policy, highlighting aliya, returning expatriates, etc.


14 posted on 02/09/2010 3:07:04 AM PST by Mr170IQ
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To: Mr170IQ

Recommended Reading:

ISRAEL, THAT DEADLY PIECE OF DIRT

(Pro-Israel)

Author: Peter S. Ruckman, Ph.D.
Bible Baptist Bookstore
Pensacola, Florida

You can Google that.

Great read.


15 posted on 02/09/2010 3:20:45 AM PST by John Leland 1789 (But then, I'm accused of just being a troll, so . . . .)
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To: Mr170IQ

The article you quote has been widely disputed in the Israeli press. The government doesn’t see it the way this writer does, including Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak. The Yesha Council and others in the settler movement as well as their supporters on the far right of Israeli politics (as in we’re not talking about Likud or mainstream conservatives) has been trying to minimize the Arab population for years. Their numbers cannot be verified and are not generally accepted.

I suspect I am more in touch with Israeli demographics and the Hebrew media than you are considering where I live.


18 posted on 02/11/2010 10:43:02 AM PST by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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To: Mr170IQ

Oh, and my “vision of the future” is a secure, safe and Jewish Israel. Nothing else will do and any other considerations, including the idea of peace someday. are secondary.


19 posted on 02/11/2010 10:45:55 AM PST by anotherview ("Ignorance is the choice not to know" -Klaus Schulze)
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