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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: michael97123 who wrote (11425)	1/16/2006 5:50:32 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Doubtful: The Iranians will cause the next world war. I am not optimistic.

To: michael97123 who wrote (11425)	1/16/2006 6:02:00 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Egypt's state's its position; I must say, I am surprised: Egypt on Iran: We will not accept a new nuclear power By Yossi Melman and Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondents and Reuters Egypt on Monday said it supported using nuclear technology for peaceful purposes but rejected the emergence of a nuclear military power in the region, in its first official reaction to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program. "All countries should adhere to their commitments in a way to allow the international community to be sure of the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program, as we do not accept the emergence of a nuclear military power," Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement. Aboul Gheit said Egypt was "closely watching" the development of the Iranian nuclear issue "out of its absolute keenness to support all the efforts aimed at consolidating the nuclear nonproliferation (policy) not only at the regional level but all over the world." He said Egypt believes dialogue is the best way to solve the crisis.

To: michael97123 who wrote (11425)	1/16/2006 11:35:03 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Here is what I have to say about holocaust deniers: Greater TA replaces NY as world's largest Jewish city By Amiram Barkat This year will mark the first time in history that there will be as many Jews living in Israel as in the United States, according to statistics presented at a Jewish Policy Planning Institute conference this week. The greater Tel Aviv area has already replaced New York as the city with the most Jews. The change is part of a larger trend showing that while the number of Jews living in Israel between 1970 and 2005 increased, the number of Jews in the Diaspora shrunk by about a quarter in that time. Overall, the world Jewish population has increased slightly in the last 35 years - but its percentage of the overall world population has decreased by about a third since 1970, Hebrew University Prof. Sergio Della Pergola said Sunday at the conference in Jerusalem. The Jewish population increased from 12.65 million in 1970 to nearly 13 million in 2005, but in the same period, the world population grew by more than 70 percent. As a result, the Jewish people now comprises 0.21 percent of the world population, down from 0.35 percent 35 years ago. Advertisement The statistics also show that the number of Jews in the Diaspora has decreased from slightly more than 10 million to 7.75 million in 2005. The increase in the world Jewish population, then, is due to a significant rise in the number of Jews living in Israel since 1970. The number of Jews in the Diaspora has decreased as a result of low birthrates, assimilation and the mass immigration of Soviet Jewry to Israel during the 1990s, said Della Pergola. The migration has led to a drop of nearly 90 percent in the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union. Accompanied by a positive natural growth rate, it has also caused the number of Jews living in Israel to multiply in the last three decades. Jews from the former Soviet Union have also moved to countries other than Israel. The Jewish population of Germany jumped by 236 percent after some 100,000 Jews decided to move there, and immigration was the main cause of growth in the Jewish communities of Canada and Australia. In the United States, the number of Jews has remained stable even though hundreds of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union and from Israel have moved there. The mass immigration to Israel in the last few years has drastically reduced the number of Jews living in countries in distress. Some 90 percent of world Jews live in countries with a quality of life that is at least as high as in Israel. Della Pergola said he expects the size of Jewish communities to continue to decrease, citing demographic trends - particularly low birth rates - in Jewish communities around the world. In 2000, 613 Jewish babies were born in Russia, while 8,218 Jewish people died there. In Britain, 2,665 Jewish babies were born in 2002, compared to 3,670 deaths. Intermarriage also plays a role in lowering the world Jewish population, said Della Pergola. He said the average intermarriage rate in the Diaspora is 48 percent. Seventy percent of Jewish women in Russia and 80 percent of Jewish men had non-Jewish spouses in 2000. The intermarriage rate in the U.S.is about 50 percent, and it ranges between 35 percent and 44 percent in South America and western Europe. Intermarriage leads to a reduction of the number of children raised as Jews - only about a third of children born into mixed marriages choose to define themselves as Jews, said Della Pergola. On the other hand, he said, intermarriage leads to a significant increase in what he calls the "extended Jewish population," which includes anyone with a close family member who is Jewish.