Ted Rall recognizes Israel’s sovereign right to so-called Palestinian Occupied Territory?

Well, sort of.

You see, Ted Rall quotes the following news story:

If the non-Jewish population continues to outpace Jewish population growth, Israel could become an underdeveloped Third World country by 2020, a population expert predicts.

That’s the warning being sounded by University of Haifa’s professor Arnon Sofer. He says there is now a demographic balance in the number of Jews and non-Jews in the region from the Jordan River to the coast and running the length of Israel from north to south.

“Today, there are 5 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews. The latter figure is composed of 4.5 million Arabs and the remainder non-Jewish immigrants, mainly from the former Soviet Union, and foreign workers,” he told the Jerusalem Post.

And he uses those figures to state “Half of Israelis are Jews” in this cartoon.

Minor problem, though. The phrase “in the region from the Jordan River to the coast and running the length of Israel from north to south” means Israel, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Or, in Ted’s language, that’s Israel plus something called “Palestine.”

So by quoting the story as a source, he’s acknowledging that the territory Israel won in the 1967 war to defend its existence is legitimately held?

No, not really. Because the cartoon (in Ted’s usual rudimentary fashion) shows that Israel is only the 1967 Borders Israel, minus Gaza and Judea and Samaria.

So, despite his protest:

I have read similar statements elsewhere; thus my cartoon.

He’s wrong.

But then, you knew that already. Because it’s Ted, and it’s safe to assume that anything Ted says or draws is wrong.

Or is it? Ted does get something right in the cartoon…

He has no border between Lebanon and Syria like the maps Bashar Assad uses as bedsheets for his fantasies of Shia conquest. (Although that may also be a result of Ted’s rudimentary drawing skills.)