pbel
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Israeli inaction on a peace deal has lit the fuse to the demographic time bomb...Time favors numbers.
While Israel and the Palestinians have again broken off peace talks in Jordan, there is at least one factor unrelated directly to politics which might make the whole historic conflict irrelevant.
http://www.ibtimes.com/israels-demographic-time-bomb-arab-majority-state-213933
As in Arab Muslim countries, Palestinians have a very high birth rate - so high, in fact, that in a few decades to come, Arabs may outnumber Jews within the land of Israel.
Such an event would clearly pose a dire threat to Israel and its mandated Jewish identity.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative, nationalist Likud Party have passed new measures to attract more Jews to relocate to West Bank settlements.
These incentives have outraged Palestinians who believe the Israeli leader is undermining peace talks.
Still, Netanyahu has alienated the more extreme elements of his party by agreeing (in principle) to the existence of an independent Palestinian state - which is anathema to ultra-nationalist Jews.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel acquired in the Six-Day War in 1967, are both claimed by the Palestinians as integral parts of their future state.
Palestinians warn that if new Jewish settlements are not halted, Israel faces a single-state in which Arabs will outnumber Jews.
Israelis also fear such an outcome.
For many years, Israeli politicians and scholars have warned that the higher birth rate of the country's Palestinian population may ultimately lead to a state in which Jews become the minority - thereby threatening the very existence of the Jewish homeland.
While Israel and the Palestinians have again broken off peace talks in Jordan, there is at least one factor unrelated directly to politics which might make the whole historic conflict irrelevant.
http://www.ibtimes.com/israels-demographic-time-bomb-arab-majority-state-213933
As in Arab Muslim countries, Palestinians have a very high birth rate - so high, in fact, that in a few decades to come, Arabs may outnumber Jews within the land of Israel.
Such an event would clearly pose a dire threat to Israel and its mandated Jewish identity.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative, nationalist Likud Party have passed new measures to attract more Jews to relocate to West Bank settlements.
These incentives have outraged Palestinians who believe the Israeli leader is undermining peace talks.
Still, Netanyahu has alienated the more extreme elements of his party by agreeing (in principle) to the existence of an independent Palestinian state - which is anathema to ultra-nationalist Jews.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel acquired in the Six-Day War in 1967, are both claimed by the Palestinians as integral parts of their future state.
Palestinians warn that if new Jewish settlements are not halted, Israel faces a single-state in which Arabs will outnumber Jews.
Israelis also fear such an outcome.
For many years, Israeli politicians and scholars have warned that the higher birth rate of the country's Palestinian population may ultimately lead to a state in which Jews become the minority - thereby threatening the very existence of the Jewish homeland.