The demographic issue is a myth and it does not take any think-tank to debunk it:

- Arab Israeli fertility falling in direct relation to their rising standard of living and western assimilation (who needs kids, ‘I’ want my own life)
- Israeli non-religious Jewish fertility moderately falling in direct relation to their rising standard of living and western assimilation
- Palestinian Arab/Muslim fertility falling due to western assimilation and lack of hope in future and self-leadership
- Palestinian Arab/Muslim emmigration – A) upper class, B) educated – virtually zero is any immigration
- Palestinian Arab/Christian persecution leading to emmigration

- Israeli Jewish modern orthodox maintaining above average fertility
- Torani/Hardal/settler Israeli Jewish modern orthodox communities maintaining above average fertility
- Haredi Israeli Jewish modern orthodox maintaining way above average fertility

Soon Arab fertility will equal the Jewish fertility and continue downwards.

On top of that, the myth of a Palestinian nation is unravelling from day to day. Negotiating with the PLO is ridiculous since Hamas does not give them legitimacy. The PLO does not even have a ‘mandate’ to negotiate anything. ANyone still thinking that Abu Mazen is speaking for the residents of the Gaza Strip are merely deluding themselves.

No one cares about the conflict here. No one cared about Bush’s visit here either. The world is on the brink of a recession, at least a mild one, in which when people are more worried about economic issues, they have less time to think about some idiotic conflict somewhere overseas. And as long as we continue to carry the upper hand, the Palestinians will continue to lose hope of beating us. Anyone who fails to see the reason for Hamas overrunning Gaza is also deluding themselves.