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| 'Palestinian Arab' population worldwide is 9.6 million |
| 2004-10-22 |
| The total number of 'Palestinian'Arabs in the world by the end of 2003 was estimated at 9.6 million, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. In its fifth statistical yearbook, it said that 4.8 million live outside the Palestinian Authority territories, 1.1 million in Israel, and 3.7 million in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It indicated that the employment rate for 'Palestinian' Arabs 15-64 years old in Israel was 41.3%, while the unemployment rate for those of the same age was 11.5%. The report added that there are 682 Arab schools in Israel, with 417,921 students. There are 1,786 mosques in PA territory, which is calculated to be an area of 6,020 square kilometers. Literacy among those 15 and older is at 91.1 percent (96.3% for males and 87.4% for females). The gross domestic product per capita in the PA areas is $1,203.40. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #11 The Arabs have historically had a bit of difficulty with hard data. You know, like who is actually winning the war in, say... 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, now... If the Palestinians are counting all who were born but ignoring all who died, plus all the miscarriages, this might possibly approach a real number. Today. Tomorrow's number is likely to be a bit lower, so long as they refuse to live in true peace with Israel. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-22 9:18:38 PM |
| #10 So 700,000 arabs, out of 1,000,000, left the partition in 1948 so the arab armies could genocidally eliminate the Jews... But they lost... So 700,000 became UNRAWA approved 'refugees' and the 1,000,000 multiplied to become 9.6 million in 55 years. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... Just like the 1,000,000 Arabs now living in Israel are citizens while any Jew living in Judea is a 'settler' and a 'barrier to peace'... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... |
| Posted by: DANEgerus 2004-10-22 2:47:39 PM |
| #9 SMcG - a.k.a. "cow lick" |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-22 1:13:31 PM |
| #8 B-a-r, would that be a grain of salt the size of a basketball? |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2004-10-22 1:10:09 PM |
| #7 The total number of ’Palestinian’Arabs in the world by the end of 2003 was estimated at 9.6 million, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. Is this coming from some Palestinian "government" agency? If it were, I would be inclined to take anything coming from it with a grain of salt. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-22 11:06:00 AM |
| #6 Very high literacy rates and very, very, very low GDP means trouble, no matter how you slice it. No doubt the Arabs of "Palestine" do a lot better, fincancially, outside the PA territories. Crazy stuff. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-10-22 10:53:56 AM |
| #5 All the more reason that I am DEAD against the "right of return", Gaza pullout, and a Paleo state. There is no such thing as a Palestinian. They are the trash of Arab world that the rest of Muslim states do not want. A little history. Originally, the Romans called that whole area (part of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Soddy) Palaestina. The Romans got this name from the long ago extinct, Biblical Philistine(s). The Biblical name Philistine=the Roman word Palaestina. The Romans had two reasons for the name. One, an area of land to deport to the Jews. Two, while deporting the Jews, humiliate and ridicule the Jews by send them to a land named after the people that King David defeated. Moving forward in time, the Romans took the name Philistine "falsely" named the land Palaestina and NOW is "falsely" renamed Palestine. Again, Palestinian people DO NOT exist. There are just a melting pot of ethnically unidentifiable Arabs. See link below. Ancient Map of the Roman Palaestina |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-10-22 10:23:35 AM |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-22 9:57:37 AM |
| #3 I know of one that live in Paris... and she lives very well. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-22 9:51:37 AM |
| #2 Wow. Not bad for a nonexistent demographic. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-10-22 9:39:15 AM |
| #1 the average car swarm involves 1,521 Paleos, with roughly half getting their bloody hands on a body part |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-22 8:09:47 AM |
