Outnumbered

Palestinian Women are Israel’s Demographic Nightmare 

Iqbal Tamimi

Apartheid Israel has killed 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza because its fears are of a demographic nature. Its army never cared what age or gender it killed. Israel’s war machine was harvesting Palestinians of all ages and sizes, young and old, disabled and healthy, pregnant women and young girls, the ones resisting the occupation and the ones who are still too young to understand such things.

Israel’s nightmare is on a demographic scale. It is frightened at the prospect of being outnumbered, so their answer is to starve people to death, stop them from receiving medication so that they would die of ‘natural causes’ then bar the media from investigating that, and then knit a freshly made lie to suit its new tailored fib. Israel’s actions translate into the concept of a terrorist in every Palestinian cradle...

During the time, since last December, that Israel was feeling victorious and happy counting 1,300 massacred Palestinians, Palestinian women retaliated by giving birth to 3,570 babies.

The Zionists consider the Palestinian woman a demographic bomb, a highly fertile creature, as fertile as the soil of Palestine. The more Israel sends a Palestinian on a one way trip to the womb of the land, the more Palestinian women’s wombs show generosity, giving birth to more heroes.

 

At a time when the average fertility in Israel is 2.6 births per woman, Gaza is considered one of the most natal-fertile places in the world, with an average of 6 births per woman. Israel sustains a high percentage of senior citizens while Gaza has an abundance of youngsters. According to UNICEF’s report on the 3rd of March 2009, the total number of children in Gaza is approximately 793,520, or 56 per cent of the population! This was one of the main reasons that forced Israel to stop its military incursions, for there are 4,170 humans per every square Kilometre in Gaza.

This brings us back to Israel’s devious methods of trying to kill women who are considered as factories for making resistance activists, without incurring responsibility directly -- with its blockades and checkpoints where sick women or women about to give birth suffer by not being able to reach hospitals, denying them the right to travel or import foods and medicines, bombing their infrastructure -- leaving them with no water to drink or use for hygiene, the near total shut-down of the sewage-system, spraying them with chemicals from above and burning them with white phosphorus below...