{"id":664,"date":"2010-07-12T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2010-07-12T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:15:00","slug":"does-israel-have-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Does Israel have a future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of Israel is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Israel#No_recognition_or_diplomatic_relations\">repudiated by the majority of Arab and Muslim governments<\/a>, and the organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mideastweb.org\/hamas.htm\">Hamas is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Does it have a future?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_Israel\">The population of Israel is approximately 7.5m<\/a>.<br \/>The population of the states neighbouring Israel (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon) is 112m.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_World\">The Arab population as a whole is 358m<\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_Muslim_population\">The Muslim population is 1.57 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Israel\">Israeli GDP is 200,000 million USD<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Arab_League_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)\">Arab world GDP is 1,624,042 million USD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/4990\/arab-israeli-fatalities-rank-49th\">Some 11,000,000 Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty years of fighting Israel, or just 1 out of every 315 Muslim fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace\/Palestinian+terror+since+2000\/Victims+of+Palestinian+Violence+and+Terrorism+sinc.htm\">Around 1200 people have been killed in Israel by terrorists since 2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the context in which Israel is repeatedly attacked by the West, which tends to have an attention span shorter than a goldfish. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/2033197c-89f7-11df-bd30-00144feab49a.html\">No wonder the people there are wanting their children to emigrate<\/a>.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of Israel is repudiated by the majority of Arab and Muslim governments, and the organisation Hamas is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Does it have a future? 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