To All Am Israel Message of June 22 2007

The “Demographic Time-Bomb” is a Sham

The contention that Israel must abandon Judea & Samaria, in order to secure Jewish majority, is based on gross errors.

The American-Israel Demographic Research Group (http://www.aidrg.com/) documents in its recent BESA report, “The Million Person Gap” and in its “Forecast for Israel 2025 and Beyond” presented at Herzliya:

• In 1997, the PCBS openly quantified 325,258 residents living abroad and 210,000 counted by Israel in its Census base while over-estimating 300,000 births and over 300,000 in immigration errors during a seven year period through 2004.
• In 2004, there were 1.4 million Arabs in Judea & Samaria, not 2.4 million.
• Since 1997, Jewish population growth has exceeded Arab growth in Judea & Samaria. Average Arab net-emigration has ranged between 10 – 20,000per year and has risen sharply during recent months.
• There is a solid 67% Jewish majority between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. That percentage has not changed in more than 40 years
• Annual Jewish births have risen by 35 percent since 1995. Arab birth rates have stagnated over the same period.
• Jewish population growth in Judea and Samaria has exceeded Arab growth since 1997. Arab emigration is on the rise.
• There is no demographic justification for abandoning Judea & Samaria to the terror gangs of Fatah and Hamas!
• Jewish demography is a strategic asset, not a liability. Leaders shape demography according to strategy and not vise versa.
• Judea & Samaria provide 40% of Israel’s water. They are the “Golan Heights” of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the coastal plane.

THE DEMOGRAPHIC MOMENTUM IS JEWISH!

LET’S KEEP IT THAT WAY.

Comments

[Tsahi]

OK, but what would we do with all these Arabs? Either you give them citizenship, or declare an apartheid regime. There is no other way to solve the issue of 1.4 million Arabs under Israeli control.

Now for the figures you brought.
* Since 1997, Jewish population growth has exceeded Arab growth in Judea & Samaria.

but still, there are ~300,000 Jews there and ~1.4 *million* arabs.

* There is a solid 67% Jewish majority between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

You call that "solid"? inside Israel there is a majority of 76% Jews over 20% Arabs. The rest are other minorities, as well as Christian Russians who came with the immigrants but are not interested in Judaism.

* Annual Jewish births have risen by 35 percent since 1995. Arab birth rates have stagnated over the same period.

But what are the absolute numbers? How do the Jewish and Arab birth rates compare?

* Jewish population growth... has exceeded Arab growth since 1997

Again, this may be so, but there is still a verrrrry long way until there are more Jews than Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

In short, more right-wing propaganda.

[Just Peace For Israel]

To Tsahi:

Thank you for your comment on demography.

First, out of necessity, the ads must be kept short.

Second, the ad attempted to show how Arab propaganda of deception is leading our failed government to make dangerous policy decisions. this particular deception re demography - has led our government to believe that there are 2.2 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria, and not 1.4 million, an 800,000 exaggeration no less! Even that number seems high and considering that the base number in 1997 was provided by the Arabs should not be taken at face value.

We have also pointed out numerous times that contrary to the Arab League's propaganda campaign against Israel, the "Palestinians" are an invention of the Arab League. The Arab League created the P.L.O. terrorist gang in Cairo in 1964 as the "Palestinian Liberation Organization".

No one called the Arabs in the area "Palestinians" prior to 1964.

These Arabs, educated in their mosques and schools for Jihad against Israel, are mere proxies of the Arab League!

The Arabs in our land have come to Eretz Israel in recent decades from neighbouring Arab lands, many during the British Mandate.

The "Palestinians" have no right to our land and no right to our Holy City Jerusalem; and yet, in their more recent outrageous propaganda, had the audacity to call Jerusalem their "eternal capital"!!!

The demography scare tactics are confusing our people to the extent that they don't stop to think that you cannot sacrifice your land and defensive borders for this hoax.

There is no moral or legal obligation on Israel to create such a hostile state on our land, nor does the government owe hostile people citizenship.

As for you last remark - we will refrain from comment...

Please see also "A Voice of Sanity" http://www.justpeaceforisrael.com/2008/08/a-voice-of-sanity.html, the English version of the ad we placed in Haaretz on Friday, August, 29, 2008, as it relates to your query.