The Jewish and Arab populations in Israel and the Palestinian territories will reach an equal number by 2016, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
The data, which was published as part of a special study to mark 61 years since Israel's independence, or Naqba, as referred to by Palestinians, cites a growth of more than nine million self-identified Palestinians since 1948.
There were 1.4 million Palestinians recorded in the area in 1948, whereas by 2008 the number of self-identified Palestinians worldwide hit a census of 10.6 million.
But there's a trick here.
According to the Bureau, 5.1 million of those who call themselves Palestinians reside in Israel or the Palestinian territories. Currently, there are 5.6 million Jews living in Israel...
The bureau's data relies on the fact that many Israeli Arabs also identify themselves as Palestinians.
So, you see, there can never be a solution to the demographic problem from the Arab point-of-view.
And that's why we're the Jewish state. Of all Jews. Worldwide.
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