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To: Thomas M. who wrote (8784)	11/15/2001 8:55:28 PM
From: Ben Wa	Respond to of 23908

Regarding boosting population, both northern African arabs and orthodox jews pop out kids like B-52's drop bombs. This practice is the ultimate undoing of ANY supposed peace in the Middle East.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (8784)	11/15/2001 9:12:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

On the myth that Palestinian population was boosted by Arab migrants Of course it was boosted, and for obvious reasons -- the economic devlopment was taking place in Palestine. People go where the jobs are, and the Zionist demand for labor raised the general wage level. Scholars may quibble how much of the immigration was only from the hills of Palestine to the coast (today's West Bank and Israel) vs. from Egypt, Syria and Transjordan, but the immigration was large and obvious to contemporary observers living in the areas of Zionist settlement. The right comparison is not population growth in Palestine from 1880 to 1948 to growth since 1948, which is totally apples-to-oranges, but the growth rates in Palestine before 1948 compared to the contemporaneous growth rates in Syria and Transjordan. They were far higher in Palestine. Peters researched her numbers, and few of her critics even bothered to discuss them; they just jumped on her more partisan conclusions. It's always easier to dismiss someone than to do your own research.