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Jerusalem News-778
Jerusalem News-778
13 Sivan 5768, 16th June 2008
Contents:
1. Irish Reject Increased
EU
involvement
Encouragement from Finland
2. Israeli Demographics: Good for the Jews
3. Human Development Index: "Israelite Nations all in Lead"
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1. Irish Reject Increased
EU
involvement
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:57:33 -0700 (PDT)
Encouragement from Finland
From:
Ope
Tuslapsi
<opetuslapsi@yahoo.com>
Subject: IRELAND VOTED NO !
Thank you people in Ireland for voting on behalf all Finns the clear NO for
EU
!
arsi
EU
referendum: Ireland's debt to the
EU
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/2126627/EU-referendum-Ireland's-debt-to-the-EU.html
2. Israeli Demographics: Good for the
Jews
by Hillel Fendel
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126489
(IsraelNN.com) With Israel's population currently at 7.3 million, and over 75%
of them Jews, the demographic trends continue to be pro-Jewish.
Demographer and diplomat Yoram Ettinger notes that pessimistic predictions about
Jewish growth in Israel "systematically crash upon the cliffs of reality." His
latest target is the "secret memorandum" presented by Israel's first
statistician, the late Prof. Roberto Baki, to David Ben-Gurion in 1944.
Baki told Ben-Gurion that Jews could comprise, at best, 16% of the total
population in Israel by 2001 - but possibly as low as 8.8%. If Jewish Aliyah
[immigration] to Israel was taken into account, Baki predicted, Jews would make
up between 21% and 34% of the total population.
In fact, however, at the end of December 2007, Jews comprised 75.6% of the total
population, and Arabs were 20%. When taking Judea, Samaria and Gaza into
account, the Jews still have a 60% majority.
Baki Ignored Aliyah
Baki, the founder of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), was the
"inspiration for Israel's statistical and demographical institutions," Ettinger
writes. However, Ettinger says, Baki simply did not take into account the
systematic and massive Jewish Aliyah [immigration] to Israel over the decades.
Only 18,000 Jews made Aliyah in 2007 and 19,000 in 2006, compared with 21,000 in
2005. However, Ettinger writes, "The current drop is simply a natural phase of
the cyclical nature of Aliyah. The fall and winter herald the spring. This was
the case in the 70's and 90's as well. An unprecedented amount of Jewish/Zionist
education in the former Soviet Union and in the United States herald the spring
of Aliyah."
On the other hand, he notes, "Arab emigration, mostly young Arabs of
child-bearing age, has characterized Judea, Samaria and Gaza since 1950."
Baki also predicted, quite mistakenly, that the Arab birth rate would continue
to be very high, stabilizing at 6-7 children per woman. In fact, however, it is
now 4 in Judea and Samaria, and closer to 3 inside Israel. The Jewish
birthrate, on the other hand, continues to crawl upward, up from 2.6 to 2.8 over
the past 20 years.
Jewish Births - Up
The annual number of Jewish births has increased by 40% in the past 12 years,
from 80,400 to 112,500, whereas the number of Arab births in Israel has remained
stable at 39,000.
Ettinger states that many Israeli demographers, such as those of the CBS, Prof.
Professor Sergio Della Pergola of Hebrew University, and Prof. Arnon Sofer of
Haifa University, "consistenly ignore the principle of demographic cycles...
Their predictions do not take into account the great influence on Arab
demographics of emigration, urbanization, expanded education, family planning,
fewer teenage pregnancies, later marriage, and divorces."
Ettinger: Jews are Non-Normative
Ettinger accuses them of "basing their predictions on linear extrapolations,
which are doomed to failure, especially in the long-term. They also tend to
deal with Jewish demographics in normative Western terms - corresponding income
and education with child-bearing - when in fact this is generally not relevant
to the Jewish nation, which is non-normative."
3. Human Development Index: "Israelite
Nations all in Lead"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
an index combining normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational
attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide.
1. Iceland 0.968 ( 1)
2. Norway 0.968 ( 1)
3. Australia 0.962 ( )
4. Canada 0.961 ( 2)
5. Ireland 0.959 ( 1)
6. Sweden 0.956 ( 1)
7. Switzerland 0.955 ( 2)
8. Japan 0.953 ( 1)
9. Netherlands 0.953 ( 1)
10. France 0.952 ( 6)
11. Finland 0.952 ( )
12. United States 0.951 ( 4)
13. Spain 0.949 ( 6)
14.Denmark 0.949 ( 1)
15. Austria 0.948 ( 1)
16. United Kingdom 0.946 ( 1)
17. Belgium 0.946 ( 4)
18. Luxembourg 0.944 ( 6)
19. New Zealand 0.943 ( 1)
20. Italy 0.941 ( 3)
21. Hong Kong 0.937 ( 1)
22. Germany 0.935 ( 1)
23. Israel 0.932 ( )
24. Greece 0.926 ( )
25. Singapore 0.922 ( )
26. South Korea 0.921 ( )
27. Slovenia 0.917 ( )
28. Cyprus 0.903 ( 1)
29. Portugal 0.897 ( 1)
30. Brunei 0.894 ( 4)
Brit-Am Commentary:
15
Nations that Brit-Am identifies as containing a significant proportion of
Israelites from the
Ten Lost Tribes (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, USA, Canada,
Irleand,
France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg,
Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland) comprise:
11 out of the top 12.
if we exclude the State of Israel which is exceptional they are all within the
top 20.
Nations that may well contain significant elements from Esau (Germany, Austria,
Japan, Spain)
and in which Israelites in the past were present are also high on the list.
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