tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post8415629409643962800..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Huckabee's Jewish ProblemDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-53816140529749192082011-04-16T08:10:52.830-07:002011-04-16T08:10:52.830-07:00PG - I've read recently that the birth rate of...PG - I've read recently that the birth rate of Israeli Arab citizens has also been decreasing due to the usual reason that birth rates decline: increasing education and opportunities for women.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-86678185797099877492011-04-16T06:49:49.301-07:002011-04-16T06:49:49.301-07:00South Africa didn't "very soon" ceas...<i>South Africa didn't "very soon" cease to exist as an apartheid state after that system was established.</i><br /><br />This makes no sense. As David has previously noted (and linked here), Huckabee is opposed to a Palestinian state and believes in a Bible-based Greater Israel -- including East Jerusalem and the West Bank. However, Jews would almost certainly become the minority in a Greater Israel, which means that in a democracy they would cease to have the voting strength to ensure that Israel remains a Jewish homeland (e.g. that it continues to offer refuge to Jews persecuted elsewhere). If Israel ceases to be a democracy <i>or</i> if it cease to be a Jewish homeland, it's not really the modern state of Israel anymore.<br /><br />What I do wonder about, however, is how Israel can ensure that its non-Jewish citizens never outpopulate its Jewish ones. In theory, the non-Jewish population of Israel could breed at a much faster rate than the Jewish population, eventually leading to Jews' being a minority even without Israel's having absorbed areas that today are overwhelmingly non-Jewish. To the extent that non-Jews are on average poorer/more religious than Israeli Jews, and thus more prone to large families, this seems like a foreseeable possibility even if Israel does everything right with regard to the creation of a Palestinian homeland.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-47556507532981781002011-04-15T18:26:50.218-07:002011-04-15T18:26:50.218-07:00Really? Get real. What Huck and his fellow travele...Really? Get real. What Huck and his fellow travelers are interested in is apartheid, plain and simple. South Africa didn't "very soon" cease to exist as an apartheid state after that system was established. But instead of calling the Greater Israel agenda what it is I guess some people want it all to be about them.Ryannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-56038436492645781392011-04-14T01:04:32.814-07:002011-04-14T01:04:32.814-07:00Seconded.Seconded.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.com