Important piece in Foreign Policy on the desecularization of Israel. In 1960, Palestinian Arabs and Orthodox Jews made up a combined 15 percent of the country's primary students. Today the number is 46 percent and by 202o it will be over half– each "segregated" in its own school system.
"Such a development is
completely contrary to the demographic hopes of Israel's secular Zionist founders."
And while Palestinian women are having 3.6 children, the Orthodox are having 7. Womb talk. I know; the authors are social scientists. The piece suggests that Avigdor Lieberman's vision of racist partition–land swaps on an ethnic basis, loyalty oaths, disfranchisement–is gaining inevitable force. Jewish intolerance, on the march.
