Israel's Real Threat Is Demography, Not Damascus By: Joe Murray

"'If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster,' quipped famed Russian writer Isaac Asimov. And with the latest population surveys being released across the globe, it is clear that the peoples of the West better start typing faster.
The West - its people, its culture, its history, and yes, even its faith, is dying. Diagnosed with a secular tumor that feeds off of a selfish, if not perverse, sense of hedonism, the civilization that has bestowed to the world all of its greatest advancements is preparing to take out its obituary.
Western nations are no longer reproducing. The nations of Europe, once the core of Christendom and the heartbeat of the West, have become cultural cemeteries - both literally and figuratively. Not one European nation, save Muslim Albania, has a birthrate higher than 2.1 children per woman, the rate that is needed to sustain a civilization.
Spain has an anemic birthrate of 1.07 and Germany is not far behind with a rate of 1.3. Italy, the nation that surrounds the Vatican and birthed a number of Popes, is struggling with a rate of 1.2. "

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