Palestinian birth rates higher than ever

[Sirotnikov]

Israeli channel 2 report that since the beginning of the Intifada, the birth rate in the Gaza strip has gone through the roof. According to the data, a new baby is born every 30 minutes. 1,500 kids are born every month. In the year 2002, over 38,000 kids were born.

The women say that the security situation makes them disregard the Palestinian home planning programs. "We give birth for all the people that were killed. It's a national decision" said a mother who has recently given birth to a 7th child in an interview.



This has often been considered by arab leaders a strategy against Israel:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mside06.html

discuss

[DinoDoc]

Israelis should retaliate by having more sex.

[Viking Berserk]

Retailiate? What have the Palestinians done? It's the Jews who don't belong to the country.

[Asher]

Well they have to keep up!

[Az]

Hey, Siro, how about mobilizing with your girlfriend?

[uh Clem]

When whole cities are under 24-hour curfew, what else is there to do?

[Kropotkin]

Quite common in troubled times with high birthrates. As the pals do have high birthrates overall Israel will have troubles keeping it up when the stock of russian jews is depleted.

[Asher]

Plus this way it also doubles as a military expense, with more people being born.

[Eli]

Originally posted by uh Clem
When whole cities are under 24-hour curfew, what else is there to do?

The report talks about the Gaza Strip. Most of the curfews are imposed in Judea&Samaria.

[Wernazuma III]

I've heard these "they breed like rats" rhethoric way too often. Among others, it has been used by General Custer, Adolf Hitler and the Gang (Propaganda movie: hordes of rats come running; the text: "The Jews breed like rats") and Slobodan Milosevic about the Albanians.

Thus my opinion about this is that this kind of reasoning sucks.

[Ned]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Israelis should retaliate by having more sex.

With of course, Palestinian women so they give birth to Israeli's.

[GePap]

I strongly share Wenerzuma's disgust at this line of thought.

[St Leo]

With of course, Palestinian women so they give birth to Israeli's.

I am on the side of Nurture in Nature Vs Nurture.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
I've heard these "they breed like rats" rhethoric way too often...

When a society has approx half of it's population under the age of 14, imho, it's fair to criticize their reproductive rates. How does a society manage to stay functional when half of them haven't reached puberty? (Never mind how the problem will simply increase when the population will be double in a decade.)

[Bereta_Eder]

On the contrary the problem is when there is low birth, like in Europe and the social welfare programs.

High Pal birth is very healthy and economically sound.