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Sunday, January 02, 2011
Did I not tell you that Israel will be regarded as a mere footnote in the history of the Middle East?
"The Arab population in "historic Palestine" will equal the Jewish population by 2014, and quickly outstrip it thereafter, Palestinian statistics released Thursday said. The figures published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics show the Arab population in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip nearing the size of the Jewish population, but with a significantly higher birth rate. The bureau said the Arab population in the West Bank and Gaza currently stands at 4.1 million, with another 1.4 million Arabs living inside Israel. That gives a total not far short of the 5.8 million Jews living in the same area, according to current Israeli data."