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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (201688)9/7/2006 6:05:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Sure enough. If you go back to the 19th century, there were not many people around the area compared with by the end of WWII and the numbers since have been huge.

So, what existed 100 years ago bears little relationship to what is there now.

It doesn't seem to me that at the time of Jewish immigration it was such a dopey idea for Jews to set up shop there [from a purely demographic point of view]. mideastweb.org

At that time, they couldn't have known that Moslems in Indonesia would blow up Bali and Jihad from Iran would be after their throats. Nor even that Egypt would get all steamed up. Saudi Arabia was a relatively empty land over some desert somewhere, not a vast oil-rich Islamic Jihad zone loaded with imported supersonic weaponry and umpty million people.

I'll check Saudi Arabia's historical population, just for fun. I can't imagine hunting around in the desert would have supported many millions. Google had some info = something like 1 million in the 19th century getting up to around 2 million in the early 20th century and 26 million now.

1 million Bedouin way over there in the 19th century and even 2 million doing their desert thing in the early 20th century wouldn't have looked too bad from the far west by the Mediterranean.

26 million armed to the teeth with $70 a barrel vast reserves and fancy modern military equipment is another matter altogether.

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