Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

[JDPriestly]

145. Present day Israel is not large enough for 10 million Palestinians either.

Germany has a population of 80,716,000.

The area of Germany is 357,168 km2 (63rd) or
137,847 sq miles.

That is 226 per km2 (58th) or 583 per square mile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

Here is what Wikipedia says about Israel.

The population of Israel, as defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, was estimated in 2014 to be 8,146,300 people. 6,110,600 citizens, or 75.3% of Israelis, are Jewish, 61% of whom are of Mizrahi Jewish ancestry.[23] The country's second largest group of citizens are designated as Arabs, with 1,686,000 people (including the Druze and most East Jerusalem Arabs).[1][24] The great majority of Israeli Arabs are settled Muslims, with smaller but significant numbers of semi-settled Negev Bedouins; the rest are Christians and Druze. Other minorities include Maronites, Samaritans, Dom people, Black Hebrew Israelites, other Sub-Saharan Africans,[25] Armenians, Circassians, Roma and others. Israel also hosts a significant population of non-citizen foreign workers and asylum seekers from Africa and Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

Wikipedia shows the population of Israel to be 20,770 / 22,072 (153rd) km2 or 8,019 / 8,522 square miles.

The population density in Israel is 387.63 per km2 (34th) or
1,004.00 per square mile.

The population density of Israel is already greater than that of Germany.

I cite that just as a comparison. Germany is not one of the most densely populated countries in the world, but it is by no means sparsely populated.

Israel is already pretty heavily populated. This is a terrible problem for the entire world. It's very sad.

Palestinian density within the Palestinian territories:

According to an article in Guardian (2008) using PCBS census figures, the Palestinian territories have one of the fastest growing populations in the world, with numbers surging 30% in the past decade (2008). There were 3.76 million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, up from 2.89 million 10 years earlier.[7]

According to the U.S. Census population growth mid-1990-2008 in Gaza and West Bank was 106% from 1.9 million (1990) to 3.9 million persons.[8]

According to UN (2010) Palestinian population is 4.4 million.[9] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) population density in 2009 was 654 capita/km2, of which 433 capita/km2 in the West Bank including Jerusalem and 4,073 capita/km2 in Gaza Strip.[10] In the mid-2009 the share of population less than 15 years was 41.9% and above 65 years 3%.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories

A high birth rate is a problem in any country and in the Palestinian territories, it really complicates things.

Here are the birth rates per the CIA:

United States (150th) 13.42

Germany (219th) 8.42

Israel (101) 18.44

West Bank (67) 23.41

Gaza Strip (35) 32.20

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2054rank.html

The Palestinians face very difficult problems. Fighting wars is not the way to solve them. It would be crowded in Israel/Palestine even if all the Israelis left.