--- Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren(a)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