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"Can Israel bring home its 1 million US Expats?" was the
headline on an article in the
Jerusalem Post 3 weeks ago; and it has gotten very little attention, though the article states bluntly that
as many as 1 million Israelis are now living in the U.S."[B]etween 750,000 and 1 million Israelis live in the country," says Israel's US Embassy, though others put the figure as low as 200,000.
If you walk around the Upper West Side, you know something's up, from the Hebrew you can hear on Broadway; but this is an important story for two reasons, demographic and spiritual.
First, Israel has long claimed to be a majority Jewish state (as if that justifies Jews' higher status).
Right now the numbers of Jews and Palestinians between the river and the sea are said to be equal, 6.5 million to 6.5 million.
If 1 million Jews are living outside the country- and the Post article refers to the expats as "Jews" - that means it's likely that there are more Palestinians than Jews in the lands over which Israel is exercising sovereignty.That would mean a Jewish minority ruling a non-Jewish majority under the aegis of "the Jewish state": which just seals the deal on the contested "apartheid" label.
Comment: While Trump's new Afghan strategy is making him strange bedfellows with the previously antagonistic liberal media, his core supporters are voicing their outrage at the new Afghanistan surge. Progressive commentator Jimmy Dore, who was actually aligned with Trump's non-interventionist campaign stance, points out the foreign policy divide between Trump and his core supporters: