Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) From: black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Our 51st state? Message-ID: <3666@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 14:28:07 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3666 Posted: Thu Aug 15 14:28:07 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:00:21 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 26 > > After all, there are approximately 40 million Jews worldwide. [Don Black] > A standard claim of those who assert the holocaust never > existed. Nobody has ever been able to find 26.5 million > of those Jews. [Oaf] OK, fine. How many Jews are there in the world today? According to this, then, there are only 13.5 million Jews. Somehow, this doesn't jive. According to a 1980 census, there were 5,781,000 Jews in the United States, or about 2.5% of the population. This calculates to approximately 7,719,000 (+ -) Jews in the rest of the world, including Israel. If there really are only 13.5 million total, as your figure indicates, why, then, is the US government such a strong supporter of the Israeli? Why is the Isreali State being given such a disproportionate amount of foriegn aid, loans, and outright grants? It would make far more sense to side with a billion Moslems and a billion Christians. I maintain that this is a perfect case of the tail wagging the dog. What's next? Will Israeli want admission to the Union? --Don Black