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Arnon Soffer Arnon Soffer (born in 24 December 1935 in Tel-Aviv ) is an Israeli geographer and a professor of Geography and environmental sciences , specialising in water issues and demography . Soffer is one of the University of Haifa founders.1 He is known for his research into demographic, water, environmental, political, and strategy issues of the state of Israel. As such he has been credited with working to implement the "separation policy" of Israel.2This has been identified as modeling an Apartheid protocol ( Apartheid ).3
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Arnon Soffer (born 24 December 1935) is an Israeli geographer and a professor of Geography and environmental sciences , specialising in water issues and demography .Soffer is one of the founders of the University of Haifa . He is known for his research into demographic, water, environmental, political, and strategy issues of the state of Israel. Soffer has been vocal about the very existence of Palestinians as posing a "demographic threat" in that they may not be a minority population and thus they are a threat by the ability to vote.His alleged obsession with the demographic threat posed by Arabs led to some of his colleagues at the University of Haifa nicknaming him "Arnon the Arab-counter", a joking reference to the fact that the Hebrew surname Soffer literally means "one who counts" . As such he has been credited with working to implement the "separation policy" of Israel. This has been labeled by some as modeling an apartheid protocol.
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Arnon Soffer (born 24 December 1935) is an Israeli geographer and a professor of Geography and environmental sciences , specialising in water issues and demography . Soffer is one of the founders of the University of Haifa . He is known for his research into demographic, water, environmental, political, and strategy issues of the state of Israel. Soffer has been vocal about geographical processes that endanger the existence of the State of Israel, and was one of the first to describe the increase in population of Palestinians as a "demographic threat" to the State of Israel.
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Israeli geographer and professor of geography and environmental sciences Arnon Soffer ( Hebrew : ארנון סופר ; born 24 December 1935) is an Israeli geographer and a professor of Geography and environmental sciences , specialising in water issues and demography . Soffer is one of the founders of the University of Haifa . He is known for his research into demographic, water, environmental, political, and strategy issues of the state of Israel. Soffer has been vocal about geographical processes that endanger the existence of the State of Israel, and was one of the first to describe the increase in population of Palestinians as a "demographic threat" to the State of Israel. He is known as one of the architects behind the Israeli Disengagement from Gaza in 2005."Sounding the Alarm About Israel's Demographic Crisis" . 9 January 2004. סופר, ארנון (2006-01-08).
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