To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (462 ) 11/21/2001 9:35:27 AM From: Scoobah Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32591 3- Beating Israel without a battle - Some Arab writers are urging a strategy called "demographic infiltration" to defeat Israel. By Ze'ev Schiff Ha'aretz 21 November 2001 The question of how to defeat Israel without having to pay a heavy price is a subject on which Arab strategists continue to focus much energy. The Arabs tried to vanquish Israel by launching an all-out war against the Jewish state and even managed to catch Israel off-guard; however, they were unable to defeat it. Another strategy that has been tried out is guerrilla warfare, terrorism and popular uprisings. Here as well there has been failure or at least a lack of success - specifically, during the fedayeen period of the 1950s and later during the Palestine Liberation Organization's military struggle and the first intifada. When Israel decided to withdraw from South Lebanon, without any signed agreement, because of pressure from Hezbollah, the event was perceived in the Arab world, particularly among the Palestinians, as a victory. The Israeli retreat inspired the Arab imagination and many Arabs are today toying with the idea that the best military strategy for defeating Israel is to operate in accordance with the Hezbollah model. Recently, some people have begun to talk about a different strategy, which could be termed "demographic infiltration." The strategy has been coherently presented in two articles that have appeared in the London-based paper Al Hayat. Their author is Wahid Abd Al-Magid, editor of the annual strategic report published by the prestigious Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies. According to Al-Magid, the success of this strategy is largely - but not exclusively - in the hands of Israel's Arab citizens. He therefore calls upon the Arab world to display a more positive attitude toward the Arabs who live within Israel's borders. Al-Magid projects that, by 2035, they will constitute a majority in the Israeli population. However, he argues, there is no need to wait until then and to rely solely on the high natural increase rate of the Arabs. Instead, he counsels, the process should be accelerated and a wave of demographic infiltration should be generated. This wave would be the entry into Israel of tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of whom would marry women who are part of the "1948 population" (that is, who are Arabs residing in Israel). Voice of Judea Commentary: Hmm.. And HaAretz, the same newspaper that published this article applauded the Israeli government when they banned Rabbi Meir Kahane and his son Binyamin from Israeli politics for warning about the Arab demographic threat. Kach and kahane Chai are still labeled terrorist and racist for speaking the truth. The time has come to correct that gross injustice.