[Joe Dees]Any nation of four million people surrounded by a hundred million
enemies...
[Mermaid]4 million? Apparently, it was 6.3 million on its 52nd aniversary.
http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0606/jpn0606e.htm
<snip>
On the eve of its 52nd independence day, Israel's population numbers 6.3
million, up from 6.076 million last year, HA'ARETZ reported.
There are currently 4.9 million Jewish citizens and 1.1 million Arab
citizens. Sixty-three percent of the Jewish population was born in Israel
and among them, 43 percent are second generation Israelis. According to data
published recently by the Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 3
million citizens immigrated to Israel, 1 million of whom arrived from the
former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Of the 1.1 million Israeli Arabs, 81
percent are Muslim, 10 percent Christian and 9 percent Druze.
</snip>
CBS, i.e. Central Bureau of Statistics: http://www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm
[Joe Dees]..in several countries all around their borders would do the same
as a matter of national survival.
[Mermaid]do what? raze homes and farms? use civilians as human shields?
bulldoze lives into the earth? Shoot at children and run away in armoured
tanks? Hmm...more food for thought from Dees.
[Joe Dees]I just wonder whether, if some of the more rabid antisemites in
<BIG SNIP> *flush*
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