Time To Admit Middle East Demographics Favor Israel And Not The Arabs

Earlier this month, in an effort to support Obama with his dual attempt at Muslim outreach and restarting the "peace process," Rahm Emanuel--like his former boss--took out the demographic card in a Washington Post op-ed, claiming that "the hard realities of demography" threatened Israel and required it to be even more cooperative that it already was.

Rachel Ehrenfeld writes to correct the record and put an end to repeating baseless Palestinian propaganda by Obama and Emanuel:

 Clearly, both anchored their arguments in the conjured estimates of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. A 2006 World Bank study found a “32% ‘inflation’ in the number of Arab births, ” alleged by the Palestinians.

A more recent comprehensive study on Jewish-Arab Demographic Trends in the Land of Israel, published earlier this year by Yakov Faitelson, found that “ in 2011 there is a 66% Jewish majority … in the combined area of pre-1967 Israel, Judea and Samaria.”

The study demonstrated that

• “Despite 120 years of demographic calamity projections, the Jewish
  population in the Land of Israel succeeded to grow from a 5% minority to a
  60% majority.”
• “In 2010, the Jewish fertility rate is 63% higher than Lebanon’s, 53%
  higher than Iran’s, 33% higher than Turkey’s and Kuwait’s, 23% higher than
  Saudi Arabia’s, slightly higher than Egypt’s and only 7% and 4% lower than
  Jordan’s and Syria’s respectively.”
• “Israeli Arab fertility rate has collapsed since the 1970s [due to a most
  successful integration into the infrastructures of education, employment,
  finance, politics, culture, sports, etc.]…It declined to 3.5 births per
  woman in 2009.”
• “In 1995, there were 2.34 Jewish births per 1 Arab birth.  In 2009-10,
  there were 3.12 Jewish births per 1 Arab birth.”
• “The demographic trends within pre-1967 Israel are identical to those in
  Judea and Samaria…but, in a much faster pace.  The fertility rate of Judea
  and Samaria Arabs dropped from 6.44 births per woman in 1990 to 3.12 births
  in 2010…lower than Israeli Arabs and substantially lower than the Jewish
  fertility rate in the Jerusalem region.”

As this study clearly documented, “the shifting sands of demography” in the Middle East work in favor of the Jewish state, not against it, as Mr. Emanuel argued.

If Obama was really interested in honest peace talks, why not address the issues as they are--and point out to the Palestinians that they are the ones who have to get their act together.

Hat tip: EG

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