Yesterday I posted John Mearsheimer's belief that Palestinians outnumber Jews in historical Palestine right now. Well, here is Ali Abunimah's estimate from last year, that Jews are 5.15 million and Palestinians 5 million, and both are under 50 percent of the entire population.
Abunimah says that by 2010, Palestinians will outnumber Israeli Jews. (Though he doesn't take into account Mearsheimer's assertion that "reverse aliyah" has drained the country of hundreds of thousands of Jews already.)
Abunimah serves up the usual repulsive quotes from Israeli officials about the demographic threat. Quick question: Do we talk about a demographic threat in the U.S.? We used to.
And Abraham Lincoln used to use the word "niggers" in speeches, too.
Then there's this:
Ramallah, stated recently, 'If Israel wants to call it Israel from Jordan to the
Mediterranean, I accept it. So we'll be equal to them,' and, forming the
majority population, Palestinians could 'change the name of the Knesset to
Parliament and the name of Israel to Palestine. It's a democracy.'"
Shocking.
