Census: 30% rise in Palestinian population over last decade

[oberliner]

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian population in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem has reached 3.76 million, up from 2.89 million a decade ago, according to census results released Saturday.

Only 208,000 Palestinians were counted in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, which is sought by the Palestinians as a future capital, said Luay Shabaneh, head of the Palestinian Central Statistics Bureau.

Demographics play a crucial role in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, with higher population figures potentially bolstering Palestinian territorial demands. The unexpectedly low figure for east Jerusalem - it fell even below an estimate of 210,000 in the 1997 census - was immediately challenged by Palestinian politicians.

In 1997, census-takers were barred by Israel from going door-to-door and based their result on projections. This time, census volunteers conducted an actual count, working discretely to avoid confrontations with Israeli authorities, Shabaneh said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3504621,00.html

[hack89]

1. Screwed that genocide up big time! nt

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. Tickety tock. Tickety tock.

This must scare the pants off the GOI.

[rockymountaindem]

3. Why?

If there's going to be a two-state solution, the number of people living in the W. Bank doesn't matter to Israel. This would only be a concern if one has a single-state solution in mind.

[Vegasaurus]

4. The "one state solution" types

are salivating over the gigantic increases in Palestinian population, since they know that demographically, the Arab population will overtake the Jewish one.

And the whole "genocide" idiocy should surely be dropped from the vernacular of many of the posters here, when one considers that the Palestinian population is growing exponentially.

Sucky job of genocide those Israelis are doing.