Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00230)

Steve Stubbs wrote:
> The why is very simple. The orthodox Jews have a much
> higher birth rate than do the reform Jews, and the
> Arabs have a tremendously high birth rate, much higher
> than the orthodox Jews. 

This is the reason why Israel never annexed the West Bank. As Israel
is, technically speaking, a democracy, if the West Bank were annexed,
then the Palestinian Arabs would, in a decade or two, take Israel over
without a single shot being fired or a bomb exploded. 

Bart Lidofsky