From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 21:11:37 MDT
On 19 Aug 2002 at 19:48, Mermaid . wrote:
> [Joe Dees]Any nation of four million people surrounded by a hundred
> million enemies...
>
> [Mermaid]4 million? Apparently, it was 6.3 million on its 52nd
> aniversary. http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0606/jpn0606e.htm
>
> <snip>
> On the eve of its 52nd independence day, Israel's population numbers
> 6.3 million, up from 6.076 million last year, HA'ARETZ reported.
>
> There are currently 4.9 million Jewish citizens and 1.1 million Arab
> citizens. Sixty-three percent of the Jewish population was born in
> Israel and among them, 43 percent are second generation Israelis.
> According to data published recently by the Central Bureau of
> Statistics, approximately 3 million citizens immigrated to Israel, 1
> million of whom arrived from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Of
> the 1.1 million Israeli Arabs, 81 percent are Muslim, 10 percent
> Christian and 9 percent Druze. </snip>
>
> CBS, i.e. Central Bureau of Statistics:
> http://www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm
>
Your figures are correct and mine were a guess, yet it is nevertheless
abundantly clear using your figures that the Israeli Jews are vastly
outniumbered in the region.
>
> [Joe Dees]..in several countries all around their borders would do the
> same as a matter of national survival.
>
> [Mermaid]do what? raze homes and farms? use civilians as human
> shields? bulldoze lives into the earth? Shoot at children and run away
> in armoured tanks? Hmm...more food for thought from Dees.
>
A country will do anything to survive; it appears that Israel's enemies
are willing to do anything to kill it, such as getting their children to blow
themselves up in crowds of Israeli kids, praising them when packs of
them stone Israelis, kill anyone they suspect might be a collaborator,
invade homes with AK-47's and murder all the men, women and
children within.
>
> [Joe Dees]I just wonder whether, if some of the more rabid antisemites
> in <BIG SNIP> *flush*
>
Dimona is there. You can't flush that reality away.
>
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