Netanyahu: Israel's Arabs are the real demographic threat: "'If there is a demographic problem, and there is, it is with the Israeli Arabs who will remain Israeli citizens,' he said. The Declaration of Independence said Israel should be a Jewish and democratic state, but to ensure the Jewish character was not engulfed by demography, it was necessary to ensure a Jewish majority, he said."

Azmi Bishara, of Balad (National Democratic Alliance) said: "Describing the original residents of this land as a demographic problem would be considered racism in any normal, or even abnormal, country."