Professional paper
State of Israel and the so-called demographic bomb
Stjepan Vukas
Abstract
The Article deals with the topic of demography of Israel and Palestine in the context of demography as a geostrategic category. After the Palestinians stopped being a military threat, their sheer numbers and the fast growing population are being perceived by the Israeli establishment as the main threat to the very existence of the State of Israel. The problems of demography are not given much attention in the Western media, whereas in Israel it frequently appears as a topic of public debate. In that debate, the fear prevails that the number of Palestinian Arabs in Israel, Gaza Strip and the Occupied Territories of the Western Bank might surpass the number of Jews in these areas. This is the reason that the great geopolitical plans of the Israeli government are being guided by the fear of the Arab numerical superiority in the area of the historical mandate of Palestine.
Keywords
demography; Israel; geopolitics; Palestine; transfer population
Hrčak ID:
85046
URI
Publication date:
20.7.2012.
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