FACTS ABOUT ISRAEL
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 (now
it is closer to 10 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?
"Israel's designated ambassador to Denmark, Carmi Gilon, said in a recent interview that when he was head of Israel's security service, the
Shin Bet, he authorized torture of Arab suspects."
(AP -Jul 26, 200)
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 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 againstcivilians, 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?