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Sunday, February 26, 2006

AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS SQUANDERED BY PALESTINIAN DEMOGRAPHY

Earlier today, I suggested that Israel's supposed demographic problem is based on inflated numbers of 'Palestinians.' Now, Yoram Ettinger suggests another consequence to Palestinian census fraud besides Israeli foreign policy: inflated US foreign aid.

Ettinger argues that US foreign aid is calculated on a per capita basis. Annual US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to International organizations, which support Palestinians, has been based - since 1997 - on a more than 50% inflated number of Palestinians. Shouldn’t US foreign aid be reduced accordingly?

Ettinger then reviews the highlights given in my previous post on this subject and then concludes:

In conclusion, Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, a leading US demographer (January 23, 2006): “The conclusions of this [American-Israeli] report are not only plausible but quite persuasive…They caught the demographic profession asleep at the switch…There are some fairly significant discrepancies in the PA’s own internal population estimates…There are also fairly important discrepancies between the estimates of the US Census Bureau and the UN Population Division…”


Read the whole thing.


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