> There is no immigration by them or their families
> to Israel. Their children are leaving whenever
> possible, and their numbers are shrinking. They
> are not being replaced by future generations. If
> their numbers are growing at all it is because of
> their having large families, and due to polygamy.
So the Palestinian Arabs' "numbers are shrinking" but their "numbers" may be "growing?" Which is it, Amyjo?
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> "Among Arabs, Muslims have the highest birth rate,
> followed by Druze, and then Christians.[130] The
> phrase demographic threat (or demographic bomb) is
> used within the Israeli political sphere to
> describe the growth of Israel's Arab citizenry as
> constituting a threat to its maintenance of its
> status as a Jewish state with a Jewish demographic
> majority.
That doesn't say anything about the actual fertility rate of Palestinian Arabs.
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> Israeli historian Benny Morris stated in 2004
> that, while he strongly opposes expulsion of
> Israeli Arabs, in case of an "apocalyptic"
> scenario where Israel comes under total attack
> with non-conventional weapons and comes under
> existential threat, an expulsion might be the only
> option. He compared the Israeli Arabs to a "time
> bomb" and "a potential fifth column" in both
> demographic and security terms and said they are
> liable to undermine the state in time of
> war.[131]
See above. This says nothing about fertility rates.
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> Several politicians[132][133] have viewed the
> Arabs in Israel as a security and demographic
> threat.[134][135][136]
See above.
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> The phrase "demographic bomb" was famously used by
> Benjamin Netanyahu in 2003[137] when he noted
> that, if the percentage of Arab citizens rises
> above its current level of about 20 percent,
> Israel will not be able to maintain a Jewish
> demographic majority. Netanyahu's comments were
> criticized as racist by Arab Knesset members and a
> range of civil rights and human rights
> organizations, such as the Association for Civil
> Rights in Israel.[138] Even earlier allusions to
> the "demographic threat" can be found in an
> internal Israeli government document drafted in
> 1976 known as the Koenig Memorandum, which laid
> out a plan for reducing the number and influence
> of Arab citizens of Israel in the Galilee region.
See above.
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>
> In 2003, the Israeli daily Ma'ariv published an
> article entitled "Special Report: Polygamy is a
> Security Threat", detailing a report put forth by
> the Director of the Population Administration at
> the time, Herzl Gedj; the report described
> polygamy in the Bedouin sector a "security threat"
> and advocated means of reducing the birth rate in
> the Arab sector.[139] The Population
> Administration is a department of the Demographic
> Council, whose purpose, according to the Israeli
> Central Bureau of Statistics, is: "...to increase
> the Jewish birthrate by encouraging women to have
> more children using government grants, housing
> benefits, and other incentives".[140] In 2008 the
> minister of the interior appointed Yaakov Ganot as
> new head of the Population Administration, which
> according to Haaretz is "probably the most
> important appointment an interior minister can
> make".[141]
See above.
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> A January 2006 study rejects the "demographic time
> bomb" threat based on statistical data that shows
> Jewish births have increased while Arab births
> have begun to drop.[142] The study noted
> shortcomings in earlier demographic predictions
> (for example, in the 1960s, predictions suggested
> that Arabs would be the majority in 1990). The
> study also demonstrated that Christian Arab and
> Druze birth rates were actually below those of
> Jewish birth rates in Israel. The study used data
> from a Gallup poll to demonstrate that the desired
> family size for Arabs in Israel and Jewish
> Israelis were the same. The study's population
> forecast for 2025 predicted that Arabs would
> comprise only 25% of the Israeli population.
> Nevertheless, the Bedouin population, with its
> high birth rates, continues to be perceived as a
> threat to a Jewish demographic majority in the
> south, and a number of development plans, such as
> the Blueprint Negev, address this concern.[143]
Well, this is closer. But it is from 2006, doesn't say that Palestinian fertility rates are lower than those of Jewish Israelis, doesn't join you in saying that those rates are negative, and makes a projection for 2025 that is wildly incorrect. All in all, not a great source.
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> A study showed that in 2010, Jewish birthrates
> rose by 31% and 19,000 diaspora Jews immigrated to
> Israel, while the Arab birthrate fell by
> 2%.[144]"
At last!
But a single source about a single year from a newspaper? And it posits a negative fertility rate for Arabs that better sources (see below) failed to perceive?
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Check some real sources, including the CIA Factbook, the UN, the Palestinian Central Bureau, the US Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, and the Jewish Center for Public Affairs.
All of those sources have the Palestinian Arab population continuing to grow at a fertility rate of 3-4, which means that the numbers are still rising rapidly and there is no indication of their ever approaching zero as you suggest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territorieshttp://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/palestine-population/http://jcpa.org/article/no-arab-demographic-time-bomb/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINPSE