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Michael J. Wise

Michael J. Wise, is a member of the US team that wrote a report about the demography of Arabs and Jews in Israel/Palestine: West Bank/Gaza Demography Study: the 1.5 Million Population Gap.

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"Battle of the numbers: What demographic time bomb?"

by Bennett Zimmerman, Michael J. Wise, Roberta Seid

19 May 2005

Demography is a central issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Conventional wisdom holds that Israel faces a demographic time bomb and, according to some demographers, who take into account the Arab and Israeli birthrates, the Jews will soon be a minority between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. (…)