The Demographic Model Is the Opposite of What All Experts on Israel's Demographic Dire Circumstances Would Have Us Believe

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There is a collapse in the Muslim world in fertility rates and there is a massive increase in Jewish fertility rates. In fact, this is not just among the Palestinians or among the Israeli Arabs. This is throughout the Arab world. Israel has three children per woman among Jews and it has 3.5 children per woman inside a pre-1949 Muslim. The whole trend of the demographic model is completely the opposite of what all of these experts on Israel's demographic dire circumstances would have us all believe. It's simply a matter of not counting properly.

Patriacide. Nationcide. Whatever you want to call it, that is what Israel is doing with its settlement policy: it is killing itself. If ever greater numbers of Jewish settlers are installed on land regarded by Palestinians as the basis for a state of their own, the possibility of a two-state solution grows ever more remote. Yet the single state alternative, involving annexation of the West Bank, would result in a country where Arabs vastly outnumber Jews and then you won’t have a one-state or a two-state solution: you’ll have a no-state solution. For those who love Israel and wish to preserve a democratic Jewish homeland, as much as for those who hate it, the settlements must stop. That’s what many left-wing Israelis and their friends say. But defenders of the settlements see things very differently. The two-state solution has long been a dead letter in their view: why stop building settlements in the name of a peace plan that is frankly unattainable? Whatever the eventual solution – it could even be a...

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