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Originally Posted by GGG
This is where I have issues with Israel. I realalize that the people around them want to eliminate them but the concept that a country should be able to define its culture and who lives their based on culture/religion is wrong to me.
Long term though I agree with you that Israel is going to have some significant population issues. And in a lot of ways demographics are more powerful at shaping the world than policy.
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Every state identifies based on culture/religion. England is full of English people, France is full of French, Germany is full of Germans, Israel is full of Jews, and at one point Palestine will be full of Palestinians.
As Blaster pointed out Israel is also full of minorities. A place that isn't is the Gaza Strip, which is now home to only arabs and with the exception of a dwindling Christian community, which now only numbers a few thousand, entirely Sunni Muslim. Besides the Israeli "settlers" the West Bank doesn't look much different.