The Irish street is pro-Palestinian, but it is paved with American money

Demography is destiny. Population has been an overarching metric in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the last century or so. Today, there are just over seven million Jewish people in the area that constituted the two states proposed by the UN in 1948. There are also around seven million Arabs, if you take the populations of Gaza and the West Bank and add to these the two million Arab citizens of Israel. How these 14 million people live together matters. Taking the division of India and Pakistan in the same year as their framework, many of the seven million Jews point…