With Palestinian frustrations rising — and demographers predicting an eventual Palestinian majority between the Mediterranean and the Jordan — just saying no is not a viable option for Israel. The responsibility of the United States, as Israel’s most vital ally, is to keep that uncomfortable reality firmly in Israel’s sight.
The Times warns demographics will rear their head sometime in the future, thus bringing a shift to historical population levels. It doesn’t mention that the local, Arab population in Palestine always vastly outnumbered the Yishuv — until 1948, mass explusion, and the advent of exclusion laws. 1967 helped too. But colonization is a stinging word, and rather than look back on that, the editorial board wants to warn Americans of this surprising, novel, and "uncomfortable" reality ahead.
Maybe Times readers just don’t care for history, or the Times doesn’t want them to.
Photo: Galilee, October 1948, Palestinians fleeing to Lebanon.
