By Christoph Schult in Jerusalem SPIEGEL ONLINE
Forty years after the Six-Day War, Israel continues to face problems on its borders, from shootouts in Gaza to fighting in Lebanon. Indeed, the Israeli triumph of 1967 has proven to be a false victory.
Former Israeli soldier Shaul Arieli is fighting today to shrink the size of the security fence that cuts deeply into the Palestinian region.
Shaul Arieli knows from experience how difficult it is to suppress a people with military force. He was in command of the Israeli brigade stationed in the Gaza Strip in the early 1990s.
Arieli, now 48, still looks like a soldier. His head is shaved and his neck and upper arms are muscular. But he has switched sides and joined the peace camp. His arguments are cold, hard facts. In 1967, he says, about 2.4 million Jews and 1.2 million Arabs lived in the region between the Mediterranean and Jordan, which the settlers call Erez Israel.
As a result of their higher birth rate, the Palestinians have almost made up the difference today. While the number of Jews in Israel has more than doubled, four times as many Palestinians live there today than 40 years ago. Today there are 5 million Arabs and 5.3 million Jews living on Israeli territory.
“The Arabs will be the majority in a few years,” says Arieli. In Israel’s core, there are five Jews to every Arab. If this ratio were expanded to the territories captured in 1967, he says, 16 million Jews would have to emigrate to Israel. “There aren’t that many Jews in the entire world,” says Arieli.
Palestinian refugee Ghazi al-Zein (left): “We will never make peace with the Israelis.”
And NOW something completely different:
Battle at Kruger
With thanks to Old Dead Presidents
The Story of the Monster PigÂ
Farmers: ‘Monster Pig’ Not a Wild Hog, But Was Their Pet Pig ‘Fred’Â
Story from AP via FOX
Poor Hog
FRUITHURST, Ala. — The Mystery of the Monster pig appears to have been solved.
The 1,051-pound hog, shot and killed by 11-year-old Jamison Stone and the subject of a world-wide Web firestorm over the photo’s authenticity, really is…
Fred.
That’s “Fred” the pig, and according to Rhonda and Phil Blissitt their humongous hog escaped on April 29, four days before it was killed, according to the Star newspaper.
Late Thursday evening, their claims were confirmed by Andy Howell, Game Warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.
“I didn’t want to stir up anything,” Rhonda Blissitt said. “I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn’t a wild pig.”
Her husband agreed.
“If it went down in the record book, it would be deceiving, and we’d know that for the rest of our lives.”
The monster hog gained worldwide acclaim after he was bagged by 11-year-old Jamison Stone, a Pickensville native, with a .50-caliber pistol on May 3 at the Lost Creek Plantation, LLC, a hunting preserve in Delta. The big boar was hunted inside a large, low-fence enclosure and fired upon 16 times by Stone, who struck the animal nearly a half-dozen times during the three-hour hunt.
if the Jews don’t want Israel anymore becuse there’s not enogh Jews on Earth to fill up Israel, can we have it?
It’d make a really nice beach-head for launching World War III against the Arab states….
Oh. What Joy Devine!
At last, the Christians could have THEIR HOLY LANDS back….
No damned Muslims…
Sorry. I meant Saracens, of course.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA..ONCE THE MOST POWERFULL STATE IN AFRICA…TODAY A CRI[PPLED WELFARE STATE….THE POINT BEING THAT WHAT THE “WEST” BELIEVES IN MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY….IN SOUTH AFRICA KOSOVO..IRAQ..EVERYWHERE BUT THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S (FOR NOW) ISRAEL WITH ITS GROWING POPULATION OF ARABS WITH ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP WILL SOON RUN INTO THIS DEMOGRAPHIC WALL….AND THEN GAME OVER
Thanks for the shout out. I’m having some issues with Blogger right now and deciding whether or not to migrate my blog, so I haven’t posted in a few days. Thanks for stopping by.