Yeah, it's time the Israelis stop being so selfish and finally let Arabs "expand" in the Mideast:
Posted on 07/31/2011 11:05:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The government took another step toward solving the housing crisis on Sunday, as Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai signed off on a building plan for the city of Harish that will include 8,800 new housing units, which are to be marketed to young couples in the hareidi-religious community. Construction on some housing units will begin within weeks.
The plan also includes space for businesses, public buildings and schools.
One Member of Knesset was not pleased with the new plan. MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) accused the government of “widening the city of Harish and suffocating Arab towns in Wadi Ara.” The government should be seeking housing solutions for young Arab families, he said.
Zahalka called on hareidi-religious Jews not to move to the area, and to leave the region open to Arab expansion instead.
The Harish building project previously faced a lawsuit from two far-left lawyers arguing, like Zahalka, that space in Harish should be turned over to neighboring Arab towns for their own expansion, rather than used for hareidi Jews.
Zahalka is one of several MKs from Arab parties to take a strong anti-Israel stance on many issues. He has previously advised the PA on how to take advantage of Israel, has called to force Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem, and has threatened Arabs who volunteer for national service in Israel...
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Yeah, it's time the Israelis stop being so selfish and finally let Arabs "expand" in the Mideast:
The thing that nobody is talking about is a flip-flop of demographics, the Arabs in the region are no longer reproducing in great numbers, but on the decline, made even more so by emigration.
But it is now the Israelis that are reproducing a lot. In 1996, there were some 83,710 Jewish babies born. In 2010, that number had risen to 120,673, and it is continuing to rise, even as the Arab birth rate is declining. Importantly, Arabs include not just Muslims, but also Druze and Christians.
With an increasing growth rate, Israelis are going to need room to grow.
Besides the babies, there is immigration. And there is the evolving changes in important demographic factors. Right now, the majority of Jews in Israel are non-religious, and have few children, and most Jews live outside of Israel. In 20 years, most Jews will live here, and will be Orthodox, which means they’ll have lots more babies, and the present-day babies will have grown and started making babies of their own.
Arabs have no scruples against birth control or abortion of which I’m aware, and do like economic prosperity enough to do both in order to get ahead. Orthodox Jews do have those scruples, and formerly non-religious, presently Orthodox Jews often come from prosperous families, and because of those scruples decide to put off prosperity (which they already had and partially rejected) in order to have children, rather than the other way around.
Jamal Zahalka (Balad) accused the government of "widening the city of Harish and suffocating Arab towns in Wadi Ara."
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