Demographer: Holy Land already has non-Jewish majority

[Gimel]

A Haifa University demographer said Tuesday that there is already a majority of non-Jews within the total area of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Demographer Amnon Sofer also said that recent estimates of the number of Palestinians to be enclosed on the Israeli side of the West Bank fence had been vastly exaggerated, and that the maximum number would not exceed 30,000.
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He apparently included in his assessment the large population of foreign workers in Israel, as well as non-Jewish immigrants.

Palestinian officials, commenting on the Monday UN General Assembly decision to ask the International Court of Justice to issue an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's construction of the separation fence, said that the barrier would trap well over 400,000 Palestinians on the Israel side of the fence.

Sofer said that the actual number would be much lower. "My estimate is that the increase will be a maximum of 30,000 people." He said the higher figures were "exaggerations for the sake of political considerations."
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/370067.html

That is, the Palestinians claim about 13 times the actual number of Palestinians that would be outside the planned route of the Peace Fence.

[bluesoul]

1. Those are still large numbers

unless you think 30.000 people and their suffering are unimportant

[Gimel]

2. One person suffering is important

But much easier to relieve than 113. Also 30,000 do not need as much as 400,000. Israel has offered compensation and has made reasonable provisions for those who are outside the fence.

Edited for spelling.