January 14, 2009
The Numbers
Check out this really interesting article in the WSJ about how the Palestinian population boom, encouraged and paid for by western countries via the UN, is contributing to the ongoing warring in the region.
Some interesting numbers:
In 2005, when Israel was still an occupying force, Gaza lost more young men to gang fights and crime than in its war against the "Zionist enemy." Despite the media's obsession with the Mideast conflict, it has cost many fewer lives than the youth bulges in West Africa, Lebanon or Algeria. In the six decades since Israel's founding, "only" some 62,000 people (40,000 Arabs, 22,000 Jews) have been killed in all the Israeli-Arab wars and Palestinian terror attacks. During that same time, some 11 million Muslims have been killed in wars and terror attacks -- mostly at the hands of other Muslims.
A must-read.
Posted by Karol at January 14, 2009 03:01 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Palestinian+population
Yes yes, but it's only a horrific tragedy when Israelis do it. When they kill each other it doesn't really count.
Posted by: ari at January 14, 2009 06:58 PMMr. Heinsohn is correct about UNRWA, but his solution to the problem shown him to be divorced from reality. Importing Palestinians would be suicide. Heinsohn's conclusion is that the Peslestinians and other growing Arab states are dangerous, sot hte solution is to let them into the US. Look at the rioting around the world. We have too many already in the West.
Either Heinsohn is a leftist who believes is materialist determination, is a leftist who wishes to destroy the west in some Fannonite cultural marxism, or is utterly clueless.
Given the "There Shall be Open Border's" patholigy of the Wall Street Journal, I don't know which applies.
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