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Palestinians and Israeli Jews to reach equal number by 2016, data shows
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Jewish World, Israel News 

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.
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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.

Palestinian refugees worldwide comprise 44.3 percent of the self-identified population. Some 16.3 percent living in the West Bank, 23 percent in the Gaza Strip, 41.8 percent in Jordan, 9.9 percent in Syria and 9 percent in Lebanon. According to the data, one-third of Palestinian refugees live in camp enclaves.

The bureau's data relies on the fact that many Israeli Arabs also identify themselves as Palestinians.

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      2.   Reza, that`s no reason at all 13:33  |  TimothyL 13/05/09
      3.   Gee, they are breeding like rats! 13:34  |  Go 13/05/09
      4.   No Genocide then!! 13:47  |  Yosi 13/05/09
      5.   The Issue is!!!! 14:06  |  Confused 13/05/09
      6.   to Go and the rest of the readers 14:13  |  GK 13/05/09
      7.   Aparthied Intensified 14:15  |  Bazmann 13/05/09
      8.   G0 # 3 comparison to rats, they cetainly could not be human? 14:17  |  American in NY 13/05/09
      9.   It doesn`t take into account Umm el-Fahm etc won`t be in Israel! 14:27  |  redbourn 13/05/09
      10.   and you call that democracy? 14:32  |  Jim 13/05/09
      11.   figures do not lie, but liers figure 14:32  |  Rich 13/05/09
      12.   Old Lies Exposed 14:33  |  Yishai Kohen 13/05/09
      13.   To Go: STOP 14:56  |  Mark 13/05/09
      14.   To Go: STOP 14:58  |  Mark 13/05/09
      15.   WHAT & WHO IS A PALESTINIAN? 15:00  |  Alka Seltzer 13/05/09
      16.   Refugees? are you sure? 15:11  |  Hector Bonifacius 13/05/09
      17.   As believable as AIDS from bubblegum 15:19  |  Ilan 13/05/09
      18.   It is well known that these figures are false 15:25  |  S Judah 13/05/09
      19.   #12 What, Yishai, you mean this guy? 15:25  |  Johnboy 13/05/09
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      22.   yishai kohen on the lie exposed 15:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/05/09
      23.   alka seltzer on the palestinians 15:55  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/05/09
      24.   7 16:04  |  zionist forever 13/05/09
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      27.   15 16:26  |  zionist forever 13/05/09
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      30.   AMin NY lets hear your mantra on dual loyalties & what you want 17:06  |  PETER SM 13/05/09
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      33.   #4 Yosi, This numbers support a new meaning of holocaust 18:17  |  Israel Observer 13/05/09
      34.   to Go 18:18  |  dam 13/05/09
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      38.   One State solution it is then 18:47  |  Roo 13/05/09
      39.   #19 Johnboy... Yishai`s only dreaming 18:49  |  zippy 13/05/09
      40.   Read this to learn how how the Arab Enemy fakes the statistics... 19:08  |  Tomer 13/05/09
      41.   Palestinian men 19:34  |  MMM 13/05/09
      42.   To Cosmo and others 19:38  |  Jeffrey 13/05/09
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