Apparently, global warming is destroying the productivity of the agriculture in vast areas of the world, among them the Middle East. Consequently, the migration to cities is intensifying. Since urban lifestyles are detrimental for human reproduction, and no city is sustaining its population except by continuous reinforcement from the countryside, the implosion of Middle East population is becoming more and more probable. I think that about 2025 Jewish population growth in Eretz Israel will be larger than Palestinian Arab growth.
The operational consequence of that we should be ready to take over the agricultural lands that the Palestinians will soon be leaving. A revealing fact is that the fully developed (water, road, etc. infrastructure) agricultural lands we abandoned in Gaza (Gush Katif), that supplied Europe with fresh flowers and vegetables in winter, have not been settled by Palestinians till now. The type of agriculture I see is extensive winter barley. In the pic above they collecting barley hay for roughage - all at a very unmechanized level of technology. In the other pic a barley field has been burned out because of a lowlying electrical cable accident (I hope no one was electrocuted). Looking at these pictures (from a Palestinian propaganda blog) the contrast with the hothouses and packing barns that were in the same area under Israeli occupation and what it is today is shocking. But what is even more shocking is the emptyness of the land, absolutely incredible when we consider that the Gaza Strip is one the most densely populated area in the world, something like 22,000 persons per square kilometer (about 25 in the US).
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If they are being fed by UNRA like animals in a zoo, why should they work? Farming is hard work.
K
I thought the demographic projections were that we were going to get swamped by the Palestinians?
Were these wrong?
American generosity has created a parasitic people. It is a tragedy: American intentions are good, and the Gazans cannot be blamed for getting used to be protected and cared for. Now they cannot be weaned off USAID.
The Palestinians to the extend that they can be described as a nation are not actors in a tragedy but are rather one of the most stupid people in history. They believed Azzam Pasha in 1947and ran away so that the Arab armies had the field clear to better massacre the Jews. They rebelled against King Hussein and he dispatched them to Lebanon. Instead of appreciating Lebanese hospitality, the PLO created a statelet to wage war against Israel and they had to run again this time to Tunis. When Saddam invaded Kuwait, the Palestinians were his choir boys. The Kuwaitis rewarded their infidelity by kicking all the Palestinians out, some 400,000 of them, who in many cases had established businesses for generations. It is remarkable that fact that this clear case of ethnic cleansing elicited little comment from the usual suspects. Then came Oslo, Yassir Arafat instead of settling for proverbial half-a-loaf wanted everything and lost. The pattern of Palestinian behaviour then and since point to some deep seated pathology in their character, an inability to face facts or make compromises even when it is in their clear interest. No one can be stupid without at the same time being vicious.
I dont want to criticise our next-door neighbors. They seem to suffer from a certain inability to face facts and consequently, of making compromises. It is a people that feel deeply wronged and will not face a reality that is unacceptable for them. They have retired into a world of illusion, and I am not the inventor of the concept of Levantine fantasy.
I'm not sure that the story that the Palestinians fled just to clear the field for Jew slaughter is exactly true. As a member of a family that had experience with fleeing their homeland, what is generally required is a sense that your own life is in danger. Now they may have received assurances from their rotten leaders that any flight would be temporary and they could soon return and move into the houses of the Jews, but without that little frisson of danger and panic nobody would have left (and of course many did NOT leave).
That being said, my family, despite having lived in Poland for probably more centuries than most Palestinians had lived in Palestine (the development brought by the aliyahs brought many Arabs into Palestine from other nearby parts of Greater Syria) never looked back, left the refugee camps as soon as possible and started a new life elsewhere. The next generation (me) certainly had not the slightest desire to "return" to a place where I had never been. That was a sad chapter of our family history but a closed one. Millions of Germans displaced from East Prussia did the same. Only the Palestinians (in part because they were refused integration into the Arab world and kept as pawns) did not reconcile themselves to reality.
Now the longer this went on, the more spectacular those olive groves of memory became and the higher the price of waiting for their return - life in a squalid refugee camp for 10, 20 , 40, 50 years. Naturally having paid such a high price, it seems somehow wrong to finally settle all your claims once and for all for a mere bowl of porridge, even if realistically this is the best you are going to get, even if all you have are crude homemade rockets against the modern arsenal of your enemy which includes everything up to and including nuclear weapons. Better psychologically to hold out for a better deal, for what you "really" deserve, indeed for what is promised to you by Allah himself, even if you (and your descendants) have to wait ANOTHER 50 years to get your just reward. And in the meantime you can eat bread made with USAID flour and have more babies. On its own crazy level, it makes sense.
K
We're always told that Israel is about to get swamped by the demographic tide of Palestinian.
Looks like it's just typical dissembling to maintain support, sympathies, treasure, blood, etc.
The fear is always there. On both sides, I would say. During this last century, we have been winning. The perspectives are that we shall go on displacing Palestinians.
That's my point.
We're always told that demographic destruction is right around the corner.
We're sick and tired of this dissimulation and manipulation. We are becoming aware, and we will not tolerate this forever.
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