"A View for the future" is a cold, reasoned study of Israel's situation in 2030 (five years from now). Basically, the Palestinian author errs in extrapolating the trends of this time and does not take into account that everything is changing and that we, Israeli Jews, are the most dynamic force in the world and most certainly will not watch passively and dissolve like other "colonial" projects.
A Sioux in 1810 could have written a similar scenario of the natives overwhelming the small American settlements on the sea board, but he too would have been wrong. The settlers did not sit quietly in Boston and Manhattan; they expanded inexorably till they conquered the Far West and then annexed half of Spanish Mexico and bought Alaska. Their momentum took them to the Caribbean islands and to occupy the Spanish Philippines. Fifty years later, they occupied Japan and South Korea. Then, the Yanquis took a rest, and the future is unknowable. In the same way, we cannot imagine the fate of this small but dynamic Jewish nucleus in the Middle East.
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