Did You Know?
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 sovereign
nations in
defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
Did you know that
Israel has for decades routinely sent assassins in
to 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 and refuses to pay compensation to those who
suffer the
confiscation?
Did you know that
Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in
Egypt (1954) and
attacked a U.S. ship (1967) in international waters,
killing 33 and
wounding 177 American sailors?
Did you know that
the second 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?
Did you know that
non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in
Israel?
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? For
example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about
400
settlers,while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000
Palestinians?
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, Shamir,
Rabin, and
Sharon) 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
the Palestinians have already accepted Israel's
existence on 78%
of what was Palestine. 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?
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