Steve Vertigum wrote:
--- Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com wrote:
What do you mean "Jewish and other"? Are all christians there arab? are there no arab jews? Are you treating Jewish as an ethnicity or a religion? It looks like ethnicity from the context. LDan
LD is correct to point out this distinciton. As I understand tit, an Jewish Arab, living in Israel, is virtually a contradiction in terms. An Arab in "disputed land" is not considered a citizen. An Arab cannot live for long in Israel without attempting to gain citizenship. Because the state wishes to artificially keep its proportions predominantly Jewish, there is an extreme hardship. On the other, (as I understand it) a Jew on "disputed land" considered an Israeli, because even "disputed land" is still Israeli land.
All of these are apartheid distinctions and it is right to point out that Jewishness is more of a context, than it is anything to generate statistics by. If there was a clear definition by the Rabbinate as to ultimately who is qualified for "Israeli citizenship" --and were there any accurate statistics dealing with Palestinian refugees, then there could be a way to establish the merits of such a system's statistics. As it stands, they are about as useful as those from South Africa in the 1980s or the US in the 30's.
~S~
Well! Let's save the edit wars for the articles themselevs, okay? There will be a link to an article which explains the demographic groups in Israel, which we can fight over all we want.
--Adam Raizen