# Israel/Palestine: "One-state solution" on the table again?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 24, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-palestine-one-state-solution-on-the-table-again/619814 "2012-04-24T16:29:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-palestine-one-state-solution-on-the-table-again/619814/161 "2012-05-01T19:54:47Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> But we do see it coming from far off, right now. The Palestinians have the highest growth rate of any human population, ever - they _average_, I think, 8 children per family - and unlike historical societies where such large families were common, thanks to the fact that they have access to modern medicine, most of those children reach adulthood. Do you think they were 49% of the population 20 years ago? The only reason the Jewish population (2.7 children per family) has somehow managed to keep up is immigration, and unless you’ve heard of 2 million American Jews who have considered making Aliyah, that well has pretty much dried out.
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> “The womb of the Arab woman is my strongest weapon” - Yasser Arafat, and he wasn’t kidding.

By that rationale then even Israel’s current minority Palestinian population poses a national security threat to Israel. Its just a matter of time. Why don’t kick them all out. Short of genocide, you guys are going to have to learn how to get along (just like we are going to have to learn how to get along with all those lazy Mexicans stealing all our jobs here in the United States).

> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> You know, it is really a lot more realistic to think of the U.S. as the bolt-hole in case things for Jews go all death-shaped in Israel, rather than the other way around.

> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#):
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> Er…what makes you think the US would suddenly open the floodgates for non-American Jews?
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> The US certainly had a vastly better record than Canada during WWII, but the dish say “come one, come all” to the Jew of Europe as the Nazis were shoving them into ovens.

Yeah, and a lot has changed in the last 70 years. Israel will not provide effective sanctuary if anti-semitism in the US gets to the point that Jews start fleeing the country. Not if Israel is still being contested by the Palestinians.

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