Thanks, oldgeezer!
Misterioso: They will soon be the majority making it very difficult for Bibi, et.al., to illegally annex occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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I agree. Therefore, Israel will most likely annex only parts of the West Bank and avoid absorbing large numbers of Palestinians. Annexing Gaza is out of the question.
Annie: misterioso is correct, jewish israelis don’t have a super majority in the region.
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Nobody claimed that they did.
See link above.
“Jewish emigration exceeds immigration.”
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No, it does not.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ISR/israel/net-migration
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“Native Palestinian Arabs already outnumber Jews between the River and the sea”
Israel does not stretch from the river to the sea, thus due to high birth rates the Israeli population is projected to double within 40 years, with Jewish Israelis maintaining their super-majority– within Israel .
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“Palestinians telling me that they had a “secret weapon,” i.e., the fertile wombs of their women.”
Cf.
Once exceptionally fertile, Arab-Israeli women now have an average of 3.13 children, the same as their Jewish fellow citizens. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics report, Arabs will comprise 20 percent of the Israeli population in 2059, compared to the current 21 percent.
https://www.jta.org/2017/05/19/israel/israels-demographic-future-crowded-and-very-religious
Misterioso: …increasing numbers of Jews are abandoning the sinking ship and moving abroad.
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Nevertheless, net migration into Israel remains positive, and is in fact increasing. More importantly, due to high birth rates the Israeli population is projected to double within 40 years, with Jewish Israelis maintaining their super-majority.
Pompeo confirms $8.1bn arms sales to Arab nations without Congress approval to ‘deter Iran’
https://www.rt.com/news/460216-us-arms-sales-iran-saudi/
War, it’s a racket.
A new report from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab…
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The pro-Empire, pro-war, pro-censorship Atlantic Council’s nefarious disinformation unit.
‘Hate will prevail’: Icelandic BDSM band put Eurovision and Israel in a bind
Leather-clad group Hatari say this year’s contest, in which they will represent Iceland, is ‘built on a lie’
[…]On stage, the group, whose name means “Hater”, present a fascist-inspired dystopia of blood-splattered whippings. In person, they are softly spoken and occasionally cheerfully optimistic.
They have slammed Eurovision in Israel – which is the subject of boycott calls over the country’s treatment of Palestinians – as being “built on a lie”, calling it propaganda and a whitewash, yet they have agreed to represent their country in Tel Aviv this week, expressing genuine love for the competition’s message of unity and diversity.
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Hatari have emerged as the most controversial act this year, putting politics front of stage in a contest that has been at pains stay apolitical, to the point of adding censorship of lyrics and speeches into its rules.
With their deadpan humour, Hatari challenged the country’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, to a traditional Icelandic trouser-grip wrestling match the day after the Eurovision finale, to be adjudicated by a “neutral UN-sponsored referee”.
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[…]Hatari have emerged as the most controversial act this year, putting politics front of stage in a contest that has been at pains stay apolitical, to the point of adding censorship of lyrics and speeches into its rules.
With their deadpan humour, Hatari challenged the country’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, to a traditional Icelandic trouser-grip wrestling match the day after the Eurovision finale, to be adjudicated by a “neutral UN-sponsored referee”.
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To push back, Hatari’s first point of call after landing was to drive to the largest city in the occupied West Bank. More than 200,000 Palestinians live in Hebron, but the presence of ultranationalist Israeli settlers around the main souk has in effect shut down local life in its centre as army checkpoints cut off the area.
“It’s so absurd to be in this contest … and everyone is super polite; it’s all about the music and everybody loves each other,” says Tryggvi Haraldsson at his hotel in Tel Aviv. “And to be in that bubble a day after witnessing apartheid in action just an hour’s drive away is the contradiction that we want to be aware of.”
Yet Hatari have found themselves under pressure from Palestinians, too, in particular the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which wants not only businesses to pull support for the competition, but artists to pull out of it too, even ones who criticise Israel’s policies.
One of the movement’s founders said it appreciated gestures of solidarity but Hatari was “fig-leafing” by playing in Eurovision.
Tryggvi Haraldsson says he supports any non-violent movement that campaigns for Palestinian rights, including BDS, “even though, obviously and paradoxically, our approach is very different”. Otherwise, he says, “an opportunity for a critical discussion is wasted”, as Iceland was always going to send a group.
The big question is whether Hatari will use the Eurovision stage to protest in front of millions of viewers worldwide in the semi-finals on Tuesday.
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5. You couldn’t escape the politics
The European Broadcasting Union tries to keep the event politically neutral, and Eurovision has had controversial hosts before, but with calls to boycott this year’s event from the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement the political aspect of Israel as host was difficult to escape – especially on social media. Eurovision nights are often a huge outpouring of joy and bonhomie on Twitter, but this year the laughs and jokes were punctuated with reminders of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And while organisers must have feared bigger protests and demonstrations in the arena itself, they could not prevent Iceland’s entry Hatari waving Palestinian scarves as they were awarded their public vote points.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/19/madonna-was-excruciating-eurovision-2019
Irony, sarcasm, satire– they can be very serious.
The threat of Jewish Israeli racism and “overwhelming denial” to the possibility freedom and equality in a single state is overwhelmingly serious.