February 03, 2006
Palestinian Authority Overstimates Own Population by 62%
When is overstating your population by 1.5 million people a big deal? When your actual population is only 2.41 million. That's an overstatement of 62%! That would be kind of like the U.S. claiming it had 453 million people instead of 280.
Worse, the numbers built of phony assumptions grow the error rate over time. Thus, the PA actually overstates its future population far more than it is already overstating it today. They overstate the number of Arabs expected to be living in Israel and the West Bank by over double!
So, what incentive could the Palestinian Authority have in lying about their population? The Officer's Club:
The report has the ability to bust a legion of myths perpetuated by pro-Palestinian factions. It disproves notions that Arabs outnumber Jews in Israel and the occupied territories, it reveals a Jewish majority in Arab East Jerusalem, and cements the dominant Jewish majority (4-1) within Israel's pre-1967 borders.
This affects the Israeli-Arab conflict on every level. The PA has long used these bogus head counts to generate sympathy for their cause on the international stage. It impacts Arab claims to the entirity of the West Bank, and blows the whistle on millions -perhaps billions- of dollars worth of international aid donated to help people that never actually existed (and in reality was probably directed into the coffers of Islamic Jihad or the now reigning Hamas).
Here is the actual report in Power Point format as presented to The American Enterprise Institute.
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There are no shortage of "palestinian" myths.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at February 03, 2006 03:34 PM (8e/V4)
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they've used these bogus numbers as:
(1) a threat (the demographic "time-bomb"; and
(2) they've used these numbers to get MORE MONEY from the usa/un/eu.
also keep this in mind: most of them are related a few times over because of forced consagnuinous/endogamous marriage. which has caused HUGE increases in the prevalence of serious birth defects.
gaza and the west bank have all the worst features of the worst stereotypes of so-called "hillbillies" like the mccoys and the hatfields: in-breeding; ppor education; and tribal blood feuds.
IOW: the mccoy vs the hatfields infuced with islamofascism and with steroidal rage.
even though there are fewer of them, (and it would seem therefore that managing them under continued west bank occupation wouldnt be impossible) Israel should still unilaterally separate.
redeploying idf assets behind a wall will better protect Israel - especially after the iran preemption.
one thing the IDF has to do - and must get jordanian and lebanese and egyptian cooperation for: preventing the in-flow of more weapons into gaza and the west bank.
these arab nations ahould have good motive for helping israel as it will help them too. neither egypt, jordan or lebanon want the isalmofasdcist hamas types to get too strong because they are a threat to their own regimes.
Posted by: reliapundit at February 03, 2006 05:01 PM (HaRhe)
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