Can you imagine 24 million Israelis?
Can you imagine 24 million Israelis? | Jerusalem Post – Blogs.
The analysis is quite terrible, but the numbers presented in this Asia Times article are intriguing. Take a look. Population aged 15 to 24 years, Israel vs selected countries:
And here’s what the Asia Times has to say about it:
With a total fertility rate of three children per woman, Israel’s total population will rise to 24 million by the end of the present century. Iran’s fertility is around 1.7 and falling, while the fertility for ethnic Turks is only 1.5 (the Kurdish minority has a fertility rate of around 4.5).
Not that the size of land armies matters much in an era of high-tech warfare, but if present trends continue, Israel will be able to field the largest land army in the Middle East. That startling data point, though, should alert analysts to a more relevant problem: among the military powers in the Middle East, Israel will be the only one with a viable population structure by the middle of this century.
That is why it is in America’s interest to keep Israel as an ally. Israel is not only the strongest power in the region; in a generation or two it will be the only power in the region, the last man standing among ruined neighbors. The demographic time bomb in the region is not the Palestinian Arabs on the West Bank, as the Israeli peace party wrongly believed, but rather Israel itself.
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WarSclerotic 
October 28, 2011 at 3:18 PM
I don’t know if laughing or, better, crying facing this ”deep” analyze about Israel , her population and the ”mighty” future field army. The big issue here is the tiny surface of land of Israel and the fact that we cannot permit a big first hit upon us. That is why nobody is interested right now about the end of the century but the very next months . Luis.