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To: SilentZ who wrote (236450)	6/9/2005 1:14:53 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1570977

I agree. I think Israel is set up for long term failure. A Democracy without the ability to integrate new people or the ability to allow for malleable representational patterns within the gov't will eventually fail.

To: SilentZ who wrote (236450)	6/9/2005 3:49:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570977

My point is that the Jews may find that their Democracy works in the short term, now that they are a majority. But if ever they start to live in peace with the Muslims and more and more Arabs gain citizenship, eventually the Muslims will demand their fair share of representation. Then Israel will collapse. How will they forestall this? One way is by continuing to actively repatriate diaspora Jews. But that has a dead end as well. If they divest themselves of the "territories," they're probably a solid century away from that, at least. But if they get there, the only fair ways I can see that they can keep their state are to bring in more Jews (and there aren't THAT many more Jews, and most likely wouldn't be interested in coming), or to buy out the Arabs (who likely wouldn't leave). So, there goes Israel. Nice to know ya. Why do you say 100 years? Below is more typical of what I've heard: "6. Today there are about 1.2 million Arab citizens of Israel, almost 20% of the country's population. Their birthrate is roughly three times that of Jews. Arabs may thus become a majority in three or four decades. Some demographers predict that Arabs will comprise 35% of Israel's population by 2020. If so, Israel would cease to be a viable Jewish state and would become, de facto, a bi-national state." think-israel.org