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Palestinians say Jews will be a minority by 2016
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian census published Monday claims that Paleostinians living in Israel, the West Bank and Gazoo will outnumber Jews in the same area by 2016.
The census, taken by Paleostinian Central Bureau of Statistics, cited the number of Paleostinians in the area at 6.08 million, compared to 6.10 million Jews.
| Except that from the Israeli perspective, only the number of Arabs in Israel matters, not the number in the Palestinian territories. And they do their own count there, no doubt not riddled with the problems of over counting births, double counting Jerusalem residents, and undercounting deaths and emigration that has so troubled Palestinian census numbers in the past. Remember when it was discovered they had a cool million fewer people than claimed? |
The census, carried by the Paleostinian Ma?an News Agency, predicted that by the end of 2016 both groups will number 6.42 million people. By 2020, according to PCBS, Paleostinians will number 7.14 million with Jews only making up 6.87 million of the population.
The numbers highlighted what Israeli Jews call the ?demographic threat? posed by continuing to hold on to the West Bank, with the possibility of the country having to choose between being democratic or Jewish. However,
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-31 |
