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Wanted: Israeli Arab settlers
Rafael Castro
Published: 28.06.12, 18:15
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31. Rafael Castro op-ed /"Wanted: Israeli Arab settlers
Bernard Rachlin ,   Aventura FL USA   (06.30.12)
Israel should build these settlements in the Kingdom of Jordan, with the cooperation of King Abdullah
32. @3 JD, Israel is already minority ruled
Tovli Toda ,   Boca Raton, USA   (06.30.12)
Some consider the minority haredi already ruling Israel. The demographic I have been writing down each year looks like: 2002: 78% Jewish 19% Arab 2% Christian 2007: 76% Jewish 20% Arab 4% other 2010: 75.4% Jewish 20.4% Arab and the Israel Central Bureau Statistics medium variant project for 2020: 73.6% Jewish 22.0% Arab 2030: 72.2% Jewish 23.6% Arab So it indeed looks like no problem, even the figure for 2059 from the CBS puts the Jewish segment at 78% Arab at 21%. Now looking at the 2059 make up of the Jewish segment: ultra-Orthodox at 59%, other Jewish at 31%, so the ultra-Orthodox that are more than half of the Jews in the Jewish state but only 30% of the total Israel population will still be making all the rules. That is the minority rule everyone is talking about.
33. Super stupid idea!
SR ,   Israel   (07.01.12)
34. #21 Avi
Leah G ,   Itamar Israel   (07.01.12)
Do you have your air conditioner on? It's gonna be getting hot, The people that live in Israel will be sweating even more soon as the tide of the Arab Spring hits them with a tzunami of reality - when they will all have to run to the hills of Israel- the heart of Israel- for safety. (what you term the "West Bank") You live in a delusion if you think you'll be safe and snug in NYC too. Hashem has a master plan- don't belittle it. If the nations of the world have "70 sheep" why would you consider giving away our only ONE sheep? Time will tell what this Land will reveal to us-not only spiritually and historically but also strategically.
35. To #34: "God has av master plan"
Avi ,   NYC, US   (07.02.12)
And who told you that this "master plan" works in your favor? Maybe, like always before, the master plan for this chapter has you with egg all over your face, or worse?
36. to 35#
Leah G ,   Itamar Israel   (07.03.12)
Why choose hate (your fellow Jew) ????? -when you can love. This is perplexing. Oh yeah- grow up.
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