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Demographers Caught Asleep at the Switch

1.  A 50% inflation in the number of Palestinians, promoted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), has been exposed by a groundbreaking demographic study, “Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza:  The Million Person Gap”.  The PCBS numbers include 1.3 million non-residents, babies who have never been born, non-existing immigrants (while a substantial emigration overseas has taken place), emigrants into Israel’s “Green Line” and Jerusalem Arabs. The latter have also been counted as Israeli Arabs (a double-count).

 

2.  Dr. Nick Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, a leading US demographer, has praised the study at the Jan. 22-24, 2006 Herzliya Conference, which was attended by over 1,000 leaders of Israel’s political, business and media sectors.

 

3.  ‘Forecast for Israel and West Bank 2025’ – which was also introduced at the Herzliya Conference – has documented a sustained Jewish majority west of the Jordan River and a brighter future for Jewish demography. Both documents are available at www.pademographics.com.

 

4.  Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt: “…The conclusions of this report are not only plausible but quite persuasive.  Why?  Because it relies upon rigorous logic and simple, but very powerful, arithmetic to reach its results.  And because this arithmetic offers internally consistent reconstructions of overall trends the findings look not only defensible, but really quite robust…I want to salute Bennett Zimmerman and his Team for their path-breaking study…they caught the demographic professionals asleep at the switch.  Serious internal inconsistencies are evident in the data and estimates on the current demographic situation in the PA areas, and this report brilliantly reviews these…This study should be carefully read by professional demographers.  I hope it will impel not only local but also international statistical organizations to look at the PA demographic situation a little bit more carefully than they have been doing. Right now there are some fairly significant discrepancies in the PA’s own internal population estimates.  The Palestinian Ministry of Health estimates fertility levels for the population to be nearly 1.5 births per woman lower than other parts of the government.  That’s a 25% gap, right within official PA numbers.  There are also fairly important discrepancies between the estimates of the US Census Bureau and the UN Population Division, the two most authoritative international demographic projection providers…But now is the time for the demographic profession to seek truth from facts here, following the Zimmerman Team’s very important invitation.”

 

5.  “Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza:  The Million Person Gap”  by Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid PhD, and Michael L. Wise PhD was published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in February 2006.

 

 




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*General Alexander Galloway, UNRWA Jordan Office Director (April 1952 briefing to the American Christian Palestine Committee):The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.” (Asaf Romirowsky, Middle Eastern Studies, September 2010).

 

*Dr. Benny Morris (Irish Times, Feb. 21, 2008): “…In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29th, 1947, [the Palestinians] launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost…”

 

*15 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displace in 1947 in order to create Pakistan. No right of return…

 

*300,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait, in 1991, in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. No Arab or international uproar…

 

*Scores of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from Jordan and killed – in 1970 – in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO attempt to topple the Hashemite regime.

 

*The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employs 6,300 persons, resettling gradually 27MN refugees. UNRWA – the largest UN agency – employs 29,000 Palestinians, perpetuating Palestinians’ refugee-status.

 

*The phantom of the Palestinian refugees – just like Abu Mazen’s hate education – constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Vision, aiming to de-legitimize and de-humanize the Jewish State.

 

*The root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the existence – and not the size – of the Jewish State.

 

Please read the following Summer 2010 articleThe Nakba Obsession – by Sol Stern, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the City Journal quarterly:

 

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_nakba.html




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