the fear of demographic annihilation haunts the israeli subconscious and plays a key role in constructing the enemy the evergrowing palestinian population as an existential threat jacobi the demographic policy of the palestinian national aspiration is equally aggressive with the gaza strip sporting the highest population growth in the world and everincreasing pressure on palestinian women both in the territories and in refugee camps to bear sons for the struggle to annihilate israel women on both sides are thus fetishized as reproducers of the ethnicitynation and their wombs are appropriated and mobilized for the political struggle