February 10, 2010
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0799/9907014.html
Did you know that Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?
Did you know that Jerusalem, both East and West, is considered by the entire world community, including the United States, to be occupied territory and NOT part of Israel?
Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories?
while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?
Did you know the United States awards Israel $5 billion in aid each year?
Did you know that yearly US aid to Israel exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole African continent?
Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?
Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?
Did you know that Israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
Did you know that Israel has for decades routinely sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies?
Did you know that high-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed by the IDF?
Did you know that Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Did you know that Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and land ( http://www.kpcnews.net/special-sections/holyland/holyland14.html ) and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the confiscation?
Did you know that Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt (http://web.archive.org/web/20040312035222/http://www.mideastfacts.com/lavon_hirst.html) and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?
Did you know that Israel employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Israel at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon? [Note: In May 1998, Israel formally acknowledged employing Pollard to spy on the U.S.]
Did you know that the fourth most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders, is the Israeli AIPAC?
Did you know that Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
Did you know that today's Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400 now-vanished Palestinian villages, and that the Israeli's re-named almost every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?
Did you know that it was not until 1988 that Israelis were barred from running "Jews Only" job ads?
Did you know that four prime ministers of Israel
Begin ( http://www.deiryassin.org/ ),
Shamir (http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0995/9509083.htm ),
Rabin (http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/miller.htm ),
and Sharon (http://electronicintifada.net/forreference/keyfigures/sharon.html )
have taken part in either bomb attacks on civilians, massacres of civilians, or forced expulsions of civilians from their villages?
Did you know that the Israeli Foreign Ministry pays two American public relations firms to promote Israel to Americans?
Did you know that Sharon's coalition government includes a party Molodet which advocates expelling all Palestinians from the occupied territories?
Did you know that Israel's settlement-building increased in the eight years since Oslo?
Did you know that settlement building under Barak doubled compared to settlement building under Netanyahu?
Did you know that Israel once dedicated a postage stamp to a man [Avraham Stern] who attacked a civilian bus and killed several people?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Stern
Did you know that recently-declassified documents indicate that David Ben-Gurion approved of the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948?
Did you know that the Palestinians have already accepted Israel's existence on 78% of what was Palestine? For those who use the argument of the Bible: God said to Abraham, "Unto thy seed, I will give thy land." Abraham had two sons. Ismael, the Arab son, and Isaac, the Jewish son. So even if one wants to go to the Bible, the land would belong to both.
Did you know that Palestinian Christians are considered the "living stones" of Christianity because they are the direct descendants of the disciples of Jesus Christ?
Did you know that despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice, torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?
Did you know that Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the refugee population in the world?
Did you know that the former chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, who is also a founder and spiritual leader of the religious Shas party (Israel's third largest political party) openly advocates a 'Final Solution' to annihilate the Palestinians? Speaking at the widely broadcast sermon marking the last Passover, he declared of the Palestinians:
"The Lord shall return their deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."
Uprooted Palestinian
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