{"id":689,"date":"2006-01-26T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/pointcounterpoint-on-the-demographic-dud\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T12:57:03","slug":"pointcounterpoint-on-the-demographic-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/pointcounterpoint-on-the-demographic-dud\/","title":{"rendered":"Point\/Counterpoint on the Demographic Dud &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For context,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/24\/a-must-read-on-bursting-the-demographics-dud\/\"><strong>click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3206687,00.html\"><strong> Demographic Bluff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt;  (Note link to Arnon Sofer Article from this URL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Once again, the demographic bluff is out of the bottle. This time, the acting prime minister, looking to cement an election slogan, dusted off the old demographic argument: &#8216;We will set a clear demographic border,&#8217; &#8216;In order to ensure a Jewish majority we will not continue to rule in Judea and Samaria,&#8217; and other similar statements that have been ground to death in the past.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;And here, even babies can jump and scream about the emperor&#8217;s new clothes: The emperor has no clothes!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;So could someone please give a convincing scientific, sociologic argument as to how an Israeli withdrawal will help the &#8216;demographic threat,&#8217; as long as the Palestinians have no interest in becoming Israeli citizens, and we of course are not putting forth such a suicidal proposal?&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For context, click here. Demographic Bluff Excerpt; (Note link to Arnon Sofer Article from this URL) &#8220;Once again, the demographic bluff is out of the bottle. This time, the acting prime minister, looking to cement an election slogan, dusted off the old demographic argument: &#8216;We will set a clear demographic border,&#8217; &#8216;In order to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}