FACTS ABOUT ISRAEL:
DID YOU KNOW?
Did
you know that non-Jewish Israelis are prohibited from
buying or leasing land in Israel?
Did you know that
automobile license plates in Israel and the occupied territories
are color-coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?
Did you know
that in the occupied territories Israeli authorities allocate
85 percent of the water resources for the tiny Jewish population,
and the remaining 15 percent for the vastly larger Arab population?
In Hebron, for example, 85 percent of the water is set aside for
about 400 Jewish "settlers," while 15 percent must be divided
among Hebron's 120,000 non-Jews.
Did you know
that the United States provides Israel with $5 billion in aid
each year?
Did you know
that yearly US aid to Israel exceeds annual US aid to all the
countries of sub-Saharan Africa combined?
Did you know
that the Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has
nuclear weapons?
Did you know that
the Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses
to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and bars international
inspection of its sites?
Did you know that
for more than 30 years Israel has occupied territory of neighboring
Syria in defiance of international law and United Nations Security
Council resolutions?
Did you know that
Israel has for decades routinely sent assassins to kill political
enemies in other countries?
Did you know that
high-ranking Israel Defense Forces officers have admitted publicly
that IDF troops summarily killed unarmed prisoners of war?
Did you know that
Israel refuses to prosecute IDF troops who have acknowledged executing
prisoners of war?
Did you know that
Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses and land
of non-Jews, and refuses to pay compensation to the victims?
Did you know that
on June 8, 1967, Israeli war planes attacked an American naval
ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 American
sailors, and wounding a further 171?
Did you know that
the second most powerful lobbying organization in the United States,
according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders,
is the Jewish AIPAC?
Did you know that
Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council
Resolutions?
Did you know that
today's Israel includes the former sites of more than 400 now-vanished
Palestinian villages, and that the Zionists have re-named nearly
every physical site in the country to cover up the traces of their
confiscation?
Did you know that
four prime ministers of Israel -- M. Begin, Y. Shamir, Y. Rabin,
and A. Sharon -- have taken part in bomb attacks against civilians,
massacres of civilians, or forced expulsions of civilians from
their villages?
Did you know that
Israel's Foreign Ministry pays two American public relations firms
to promote Israel to the American public?
Did you know that
Sharon's coalition government includes a party -- Molodet -- that
advocates expelling all non-Jews from the occupied territories?
Did you know
that in the eight years since the signing of the Oslo accord,
Israel has increased its building of Jewish "settlements," in
violations of the accord?
Did you know that
building of Jewish "settlements" in the occupied territories doubled
under the "moderate" prime minister Ehud Barak, compared to the
"hardline" prime minister B. Netanyahu?
Did you know that
Israel once issued a postage stamp commemorating a man who attacked
a civilian bus and killed several people?
Did you know that
recently declassified documents indicate that Israel's first prime
minister, David Ben-Gurion, in at least some instances approved
of the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948?
Did you know that
despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice, Israel's
"Shin Bet" interrogators have continued to torture Palestinian
prisoners?
Did you know that
Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the world's
refugee population?
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