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Palestinians mull a majority - By Joshua Mitnick
New population data have some Palestinians contemplating
an unorthodox formula for Middle East peace — a single
democratic nation of Arabs and Jews, in which Palestinians
would be the majority.
"If Israel wants to call it Israel from Jordan to the
Mediterranean, I accept it. So we'll be equal to them,"
said Saeb Erekat, a negotiator who has been at the center
of negotiations to set up a Palestinian state in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip.
"And with the majority, I will change the name of the
Knesset to Parliament and the name of Israel to Palestine.
It's a democracy," Mr. Erekat, a chief negotiator with
Israel for more than a decade, told The Washington Times.
New population data show the demographic balance in Israel
and the Palestinian territories has continued to shift in
favor of Palestinians over the past decade, giving fresh
urgency to warnings that the Bush administration's pursuit
of a peace treaty by the end of this year may be the last
gasp for a two-state solution.
According to the preliminary findings of a census conducted
by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the
population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip surged by 30
percent over the past decade to 3.76 million. When 1.4
million Israeli Arabs are added, the total Palestinian
population in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip is
nearly 5.2 million, compared with a Jewish population of
5.8 million.
If trends continue, most demographers expect Arabs to
outnumber Jews within five years.
The census, the second Palestinian count since getting
autonomy in the 1990s, was conducted in November and
December.
An Israeli demographic researcher said the numbers appeared
reliable, and even lower than the initial population
projections of the statistics bureau.
Hanna Siniora, co-chief executive officer of the Israel-
Palestine Center for Research and Information, said that
support for a single state is currently limited to
Palestinian intellectuals. But that could grow depending
on the outcome of the talks.
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"The census indicates that there is a demographic issue,
but the Israeli politicians are blind to it. They're doing
nothing to resolve it, and time is running out," he said.
"This is a year that either we make a breakthrough or the
alternative is binational state."
Israelis who see their country as a homeland, where Jews
exercise self-determination, consider that scenario
untenable.
What's known in Hebrew as the "demographic problem" has
created a consensus among the Israeli public of the need
to create a separate Palestinian state.
"Basically, what we have here is a society which multiplies
itself, every twenty years. And that's the problem," said
Ephraim Sneh, a deputy minister from the Labor Party.
"The fact that we are not proceeding quick enough to a
two-state solution, will bring us, God forbid, to a one-
state solution, and that will bring us to the end of the
Zionism."
One group of Israeli researchers, who have spent years
trying to debunk the concept of a Palestinian demographic
threat, charge that the Palestinian census is riddled with
mistakes that distorts the true demographic picture.
Arguing that the 2007 census inflated Palestinian numbers
by 53 percent, Yoram Ettinger, arrived at the opposite
conclusion.
"There is no demographic machete at Israel's throat, and
the demographic tailwind is Jewish, not Arab," he wrote
in article published by the Israeli Web site Ynetnews.com.
A prominent Israeli demographer says that Mr. Ettinger and
his research team are flat wrong.
Hebrew University's Sergio Della Pergola said the census
findings were within his expectations, and even lower
than the Palestinian forecasts.
"The pace of population growth there is significantly
bigger than the population in Israel," he said.
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