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Is Israel Guilty of Reverse Ethnic Cleansing?

by WrathofG-d ( 15 Comments › )
Filed under Gaza, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestinians at February 17th, 2009 - 2:08 pm

An official “Palestinian” census shows that the Arab population of Gaza has grown over 40% in the last 10 years, and should completely double in 21 years.

So much for the unceasing ridiculous claims that Israel is committing “ethnic cleansing” against the so-called “Palestinians”.

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pali-population-boom1RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – The population of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has passed 1.4 million people, an increase of nearly 40 percent over the past 10 years, an official Palestinian census published Sunday said.

The census found that as of 2007 the population of the territory had reached 1,416,543 compared to 1,022,207 in 1997, with an estimated annual growth rate of 3.3 percent.

“Assuming a stable growth during the coming years, the Gaza Strip population will double in 21 years,” said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which carried out the census.

The average family size across Gaza has declined, however, from 6.9 household members to 6.5, according to the census.

The population of the impoverished coastal territory remains overwhelmingly young, with 48.3 percent of residents under 15 years of age. In 1997 50.2 percent of residents were under 15.

The majority of Gaza residents are UN-registered refugees from what is now Israel, constituting 67.9 percent of the population, a slight increase from 1997 when refugees made up 65.1 percent.

The census found increasing literacy in Gaza, with 5.5 percent of the population over 10 years old listed as illiterate in 2007 compared to 11.3 percent in 1997.

The preliminary results from the census released in February 2008 put the entire Palestinian population in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank including east Jerusalem at 3,761,646.

Most Palestinians, 2,345,107, live in the West Bank, an increase of 30 percent in 10 years. The statistics bureau has not yet released final results on the West Bank or east Jerusalem.

{The Article}

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Oh, and for a point of comparision, the Jewish population in Gaza however has shrunk over the last 10 years by 100%.  celery-grower-gush-katif

A Contiguous Palestinian State?

by WrathofG-d ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Gaza, Israel, Palestinians at January 27th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

A ”CONTINGUOUS ‘PALESTINIAN’ STATE”, MR. OBAMA?

In Obama’s first interview as President of The United States  (see thread below) he states that his final solution to the Arab/Israel conflict would include a “contiguous Palestinian State”.

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Let’s go to a map.

ISRAEL

map-of-israel

On the bottom left of the map, near Egypt, is “the Gaza Strip”, on the right side of the map in red lettering is ” Judea and Samaria (mistakenly referred to as “The West Bank”).  These two area consist of what is often referred to as “The Palestinian Territories”, and what the Arabs demand to make a part of their supposedly desired State.  Obama, parroting the Arab argument, stated that any future Palestinian State would be contiguous.

What he didn’t mention however is that the only way this “contiguous Palestinian state” can be accomplished is to split Israel in half, and effectively create two separate cantons.  Beyond the obvious inequity of this suggestion, it would only further destabilize the area, and contribute drastically to a decease in Israel’s security.  I am sure this is what is intended by the Arabs when they make this suggestion, but I question President Obama.

What the Obama Administration seems not to recognize is that they are actively assisting the Arabs in moving forward with their stated goal of destroying Israel by using what is known as the P.L.O. Phased Plan.  This is not surprising however as all so-called “peace” negotiations are being made with Abu Mazen/Mahmood Abbas, who co-founded the P.L.O. with Yassir Arafat.

These are the three main points of the Phased Plan:

  • Through the “armed struggle” (i.e., terrorism), to establish an “independent combatant national authority” over any territory that is “liberated” from Israeli rule. (Article 2)
  • To continue the struggle against Israel, using the territory of the national authority as a base of operations. (Article 4)
  • To provoke an all-out war in which Israel’s Arab neighbors destroy it entirely (“liberate all Palestinian territory”). (Article 8 )

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Any deal which allows the creation of a “contiguous Palestinian State” will per the Phased Plan, reset the clock all the way back to the original 1947 Partition Plan when the Arabs (NOT “Palestinians” however) initially rejected a State, and instead chose a war of annihilation against Israel.  The Arabs will through negotiations, get what they were incapable of achieving through Terrorism alone.  The problem however, as stated in their Phased Plan, and as was evidenced by their response to Israel’s peace gesture of its 2005 expulsion of all Jews from Gaza,  is that a contiguous Palestinian State will only be the beginning of the next phase, and not and end to the conflict.