Tikkun Olam

Haven't blogged in two weeks, so it's time.  Here, Glenn Beck states outright what I have been trying to beat you guys over the head with for years.  I am losing my patience, and my politeness.  For all his foibles, Beck has the courage (or the chutzpah) to say it loud and clear (yes, I know it's an adverb, but "loudly and clearly" just doesn't cut it).  All reasonable, intelligent, informed people should be standing with Israel against the radical Islamists and Islam.

(nablopomo day 24) An article on Israel National News discusses a recent demographic study in Israel of the last 15 years which indicates a dramatic rise in Jewish births and a parallel drop in Arab births.  The interesting thing is that the rise in birth rate is among secular Jewish women, while the birth rate among religious women remains consistently high. Dr. Adam Reuter, writing on Arutz-7’s Hebrew site, presents a set of statistics showing that the dire predictions of an Arab demographic takeover of Israel that have become “common knowledge” are actually not true. It includes eye-opening statistics, a few enumerated here, such as: 1) The fertility gap between Arab and Jewish women, which used to be 6 births in 1969, has dropped to .7 in 2009. 2) The proportion of Jewish births in Israel has grown from 69% of total births in 1995, to 75% in 2008 3) A generation ago, secular Jewish women gave birth to 2.1 children.  Their daughters are giving birth to 2.6 ch...