Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by Alan Weisman · 23 Sep 2013 · 579pp · 164,339 words
large families, Toufakji agrees, is definitely no joke to Israelis. The Palestine Liberation Organization’s best weapon, its leader Arafat liked to say, was the Palestinian womb. During Ramadan, Toufakji and some of his own thirteen siblings would be among the half-million worshippers overflowing al-Aqsa Mosque, spilling onto al-Haram
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
by Yossi Klein Halevi · 4 Nov 2014 · 752pp · 201,334 words
some of the talk of his fellow security prisoners, like the Palestinian who assured him that Israel would be destroyed by “our secret weapon, the Arab womb.” “Human beings shouldn’t be reduced to statistics,” Udi admonished. “Hey, Udi, look at this,” called out a cellmate named Abu Tawfik, pointing to an
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
by Tom Segev · 2 Jan 2007 · 1,145pp · 310,655 words
, who had now returned to Israel. The low birthrate, which had worried Israel even before the war, was now at the center of attention. The “Arab womb” continued to threaten the Zionist existence in Palestine.* However, the number of Jews who immigrated to Israel in 1968, more than thirty thousand, was 40