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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
4.2 million Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza Strip
2011-07-13
Don't let us forget that the Palestinians are in the habit of significantly over-counting their population.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- On World Population Day 2011, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the total population of the Palestinian territory stood at 4.2 million people. Some 2.6 million live in the West Bank and 1.59 million in Gaza, the PCBS report said. Among the other findings: More than one-fifth of participants in the Palestinian labor force are unemployed and 7.8 percent of females are illiterate, a rate more than three times higher than for males.
The CIA Factbook on Gaza and the West Bank, for comparison purposes.
World Population Day has been observed every July 11 for two decades as an occasion to draw attention to the significance of population trends and related issues, the UN Population Fund says. This year, the world population is expected to surpass seven billion people.

"Whether we can live together equitably on a healthy planet will depend on the choices and decisions we make now. In a world of 7 billion people, and counting, we need to count each other," the fund said Monday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The Slackers Seethers stayed home
Posted by: Frank G   2011-07-13 20:48  

#2  F YOU were a Palestinian, what would you do for yourself or for your families future welfare and prosperity?

Many families have at least one member out in the world working to send money home, Mr. de Medici. And many more have emigrated altogether over the decades -- Christian
Arabs started the trend back in Ottoman times. Google "Palestinian diaspora" for details, or just read the Wikipedia article to learn all sorts of things useful for the right sort of dinner party conversation.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-07-13 19:08  

#1  IF YOU were a Palestinian, what would you do for yourself or for your families future welfare and prosperity?

Can you even GET out of Palestine these days? Would you immigrate to Brazil, if you could? Sunny Brazil, somewhere on the coast, open a restaurant and set up an awning and a few chairs.
Nothing fancy, cook down home like Momma, maybe get Momma to do the cooking herself. All the kids could wait tables. Learn to speak Bahia or whatever the locals jargon along on maybe. Forget the Jews, how many nasty Jews are in Bahia, after all?

OR you can stay in "Palestine" and eat what is between your toes until you die. Your choice there, Achmed.

No wonder Palestinians kill themselves so much and so often. Wouldn't you? If it's bad DOWNWIND of Jenin, think about what's its like to live next door to a whole camp of Palestinians IN the Camp...like for the last seventy years or so...and nobody has a toilet or a job. ya Allah and remember what Yasser Arafat always said,....." So long, suckers."
Posted by: de Medici   2011-07-13 05:04  

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