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Quote by: The_Genius  Hahaha... You don't even know what leads to lower birth rates. e.g- Alcohol abuse, divorce, miscarriage due to late marriages etc. These things happen a lot more in Israeli society and thus, affect a couple's reproductivity.
Huge percentage of Jews in Israel are immigrants. Don't forget, Jews are occupants... Arabs are natives.
It's their legit home. Do you blame them? 16% is very low considering Palestine is a nation with world's largest number of refugees.  no need to get emotional. I don't hate Jews.
Coming from you?  |
I see personal attacks here. This time Genius, I will fault you on incorrectly explaining the low birth of Jews. Then I will point out the difference in birth rate would not be a problem, except that Irael wants to claim to be a democracy, and therefore, Jews must outnumber Palestinians, because they must maintian the majority. This has everything to with controlling land use and decisions that keep Palestinians refugees. That is, the defense of Israel Jews, is part of the an explanation of the problem.
Why do we choose to have small families or do not choose to do so, is a matter of values. What are the values of those who choose small families, verses having large families? Would one set of values tend to lead to alcoholism and divorce more than the other set of values? Is one side meeting emotional human needs better than the other? How about ego needs verses social needs? Is this conflict in values resolvable? What happens when such conflicts in values are not resolved? This us verses them thinking is part of the problem. Can these two sides use a shared understanding of God to get beyond this? What is the highest principle?