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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Evangelical pro-Israel group to lobby
A new evangelical group is planning a pro-Israel lobbying bid in Washington on July 18-19.
Christians United for Israel, led by the Rev. John Hagee, was formed earlier this month. The executive committee includes prominent evangelists the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Gary Bauer and the Rev. George Morrison, who founded the Christian group Promise Keepers.
The group is planning to establish chapters in all 50 states. The Israeli Embassy in Washington welcomed the news.
“American Christians are key allies and important supporters of Israel based on our common values and heritage, and we welcome their efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Israel,” ambassador Daniel Ayalon said in a statement to JTA.
Report: Palestinians overcounted
The Palestinian Authority overcounted Palestinians by more than a million, a team of demographers concluded.
The American-Israeli Demographic Research Group, presenting its findings at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, said the 3.8 million figure for 2004, published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, was off by 1.3 million.
The researchers said the Palestinian statisticians based their figure on mid-1990s projections that counted on massive immigration after the establishment of a Palestinian state, then projected for 1999; counted Palestinians who had been outside the region for more than a year, and who had a legal right to return; and failed to count emigration.
The research group also discounted projections that Arabs would outnumber within a generation Jews in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, saying Jewish birthrates were diminishing and Arab birthrates were high, but declining.
Jewish group visits Denmark
An American Jewish Committee delegation visited Denmark on a solidarity trip in the wake of the Mohammed cartoon controversy.
This week’s two-day visit was led by David Harris, the executive director of the AJCommittee. Muslims rioted recently against Danish institutions and a boycott against Danish businesses was announced after news spread that a Danish newspaper printed controversial cartoons about Mohammed, the Islamic prophet.
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