JPost op-ed on Aliyah

Interesting opinion piece at the JPost: Nurture the Diaspora:

The only country where Jewish birth rates are firmly positive - nearly three times more births than deaths in 2001 - is Israel. It follows that Ariel Sharon's stated goal of bringing here another million immigrants within a decade will prove unrealistic, not because the prospective newcomers don't want to live in the Jewish state, but because they don't want to be Jewish, and are even less inclined to educate, or even give birth to a new generation of potential Jews.

The only thing ignored by the author is the approximately one million religious Jews in the Diaspora. These Jews clearly do want to be Jewish, but living in Israel hasn't been sufficiently presented as part of the package.