{"id":355589,"date":"2018-04-07T03:21:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T02:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/demography-hypocrisy-and-absurdity\/"},"modified":"2018-04-07T03:21:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T02:21:58","slug":"demography-hypocrisy-and-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/demography-hypocrisy-and-absurdity\/","title":{"rendered":"Demography, Hypocrisy and Absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Israeli army<\/a>, Jews are now a minority in Israeli-controlled territory.\u00a0 Palestinians outnumber them. This is despite all the creative measures Israel has used to minimize the number of Palestinians and boost the number of Jews.<\/p>\n

These measures include killing, starving and preventing adequate medical treatment for Palestinians (especially in Gaza but also in the West Bank), seizing and destroying their homes and property, separating families, outright expulsion (from Jerusalem<\/a>, for example), capturing and terrorizing children, and making economic activity all but impossible.\u00a0 The purpose is to get Palestinians to leave, reproduce in smaller numbers or simply die more quickly.\u00a0 Despite some success with each of these, the goal continues to elude its pursuers.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason is that the number of Jews is not keeping pace. More than a million are estimated to have emigrated from Israel<\/a> in the last decade, even though they continue to be counted as Israeli Jews.\u00a0 Israel has found \u201cJews\u201d among Peruvian Indians<\/a>, Ethiopian tribes and minority groups from India<\/a>.\u00a0 American Jews who opt to be buried in Israel<\/a> are considered \u201cimmigrants\u201d and given Israeli citizenship. Nevertheless, it appears to be a losing battle, according to army statistics.<\/p>\n

Now the Diaspora Ministry is coming to the rescue. It recommends admitting as \u201cJews\u201d populations that have an “affinity<\/a> to Israel and Judaism.\u00a0 These include communities that declare themselves to be…<\/p>\n

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According to the Israeli army, Jews are now a minority in Israeli-controlled territory.\u00a0 Palestinians outnumber them. This is despite all the creative measures Israel has used to minimize the number of Palestinians and boost the number of Jews. These measures include killing, starving and preventing adequate medical treatment for Palestinians (especially in Gaza but also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}