China, India, and Israel

A famous Israeli politician and leader once met Chinese and Indian officials at a global summit. They were sharing how their three cultures were among the very oldest in the world and do still exist today. The Israeli then asked how many Chinese and Indian people there were in the world today. There are around 1 billion Indian and perhaps over 1.3 billion Chinese people. The Jewish people, however, number only around 12 or 13 million worldwide (80% of which live in either Israel or the US). The question then asked by the Israeli was simple: how come the Chinese and Indian make up over 2 billion of the almost 7 billion people worldwide, but the Jewish people make up only a tiny fraction of these figures? The main answer was (is!) simple: land. While the Chinese and Indians always had their land, Israel did not.