Quick facts about Israel: > Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the U.S. Stock exchange after the US and Canada
> Israel leads the world in the numbers of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000
> Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in the number of trees
> Over the past 25 years agricultural output has increased sevenfold with hardly any increase in the amount of water used
> Many bus stops in busy areas have tzedaka (charity) boxes
> Almost 1/3 of all Israelis are volunteers
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then read: The Desert Herald- The History of US-Israel Relations (1) How the “Special Relationship” was Created
http://desertherald.com/?p=57...
There are plenty of Israelis who want their elected and appointed government thugs OFF the U.S. dollar pipeline if only so that the Sabras can get their Knesset Critters firmly choke-chained.
They want control of their country. Big surprise, right?
The lands that Israel occupies were won after being attacked and kicking the butts of the attackers. And any that they have given back, which they have, were totally destroyed, and turned the people back to a barbaric existance.
Quote from an interesting article on the situation. Too bad we don't do the same with our borders.
"Israel has little control over the day-to-day life of Palestinians and was prepared to have no control in 2000 when it agreed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to which it gave 97 percent of the land it had conquered in the 1967 War. The Palestinian response was to unleash an intifada of terror against Israeli civilians.
And what about the security wall that divides Israel and the West Bank? Is that an example of apartheid?
That this is even raised as an issue is remarkable. One might as well mention the security fence between the United States and Mexico as an example of apartheid. There is no difference between the American wall at its southern border and the Israeli wall on its eastern border. Both barriers have been built to...
The lands that Israel occupies were won after being attacked and kicking the butts of the attackers. And any that they have given back, which they have, were totally destroyed, and turned the people back to a barbaric existance.
Quote from an interesting article on the situation. Too bad we don't do the same with our borders.
"Israel has little control over the day-to-day life of Palestinians and was prepared to have no control in 2000 when it agreed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to which it gave 97 percent of the land it had conquered in the 1967 War. The Palestinian response was to unleash an intifada of terror against Israeli civilians.
And what about the security wall that divides Israel and the West Bank? Is that an example of apartheid?
That this is even raised as an issue is remarkable. One might as well mention the security fence between the United States and Mexico as an example of apartheid. There is no difference between the American wall at its southern border and the Israeli wall on its eastern border. Both barriers have been built to keep unwanted people from entering the country.
Israel built its security wall in order to keep terrorists from entering Israel and murdering its citizens. What appears to bother those who work to delegitimize Israel by calling it an apartheid state is that the barrier has worked. The wall separating Israel from the West Bank has probably been the most successful terrorism-prevention program ever enacted."
Arabs in Israel live a better life than in many other Arab countries.
http://townhall.com/columnist...
Your words are the racist intolerant words. and show a total ignorance of the situation.
"The comparison between the U.S. and Israel and their occupation and borders is a fallacy and ludicrous" Your statement. Do you have a clue as to how many Native Americans we killed, and put on reservations? Reservations that were nothing more that Concentration Camps, one shade shy of the WWII Holocaust.
So yes the comparison is not much different.
I do not tolerate those that insult me personally for my views. Especially when I present facts that they do not have any way to dispute.
You are the hateful one here. And bear in mind that when you refer to the "Palestinisn Peoples" you refer to a government that is not in existance.
There is no Palestine state, and cannot be so long as their government has said that for them to exist, Israel and all jews must be destroyed.
Go and dispense your ignorant trolling somewhere else.
'''Israel gives liberties to its citizens, including Arabs, women and other minorities -- unlike the rest of the Arab region.;;;
free liberty like this one ???
this is what they want from muslim women and arabs !!! -libeeeeeeertttttttyyyyy. yeahhhhhh?
and where ? in holly land ?
do you really call these people religious ?
what a joke
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every advert to promote tourism , is focused on blue sky, blue sea , naked woman
and some roads and hospitals
but if you asked them to go to muslim areas or chritians one, you will vomit!!
this is what they will not show you
does this means muslims have no positive impact on this planet ?
just go back years ago - before 1500 century ago ? before even isreal exist?
what about this century you may ask ?
well , thank god you are living in their land and they are surrouding you protecting you from very long time and letting you live despite killing them and imprisonning them to start with.
and that is the best ever postive thing they have done , showing tolerance, understanding peace and co-oexistence ...
It sounds like pots and kettles to me.
Israel has little control over the day-to-day life of Palestinians and was prepared to have no control in 2000 when it agreed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to which it gave 97 percent of the land it had conquered in the 1967 War. The Palestinian response was to unleash an intifada of terror against Israeli civilians.
And what about the security wall that divides Israel and the West Bank? Is that an example of apartheid?
That this is even raised as an issue is remarkable. One might as well mention the security fence between the United States and Mexico as an example of apartheid. There is no difference between the American wall at its southern border and the Israeli wall on its eastern border. Both barriers have been built to keep unwanted people from entering the country.
Israel built its security wall in order to keep terrorists from entering Israel and murdering its citizens. What appears to bother those who work to delegitimize Israel by calling it an apartheid state is that the barrier has worked. The wall separating Israel from the West Bank has probably been the most successful terrorism-prevention progra...
Israel has little control over the day-to-day life of Palestinians and was prepared to have no control in 2000 when it agreed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to which it gave 97 percent of the land it had conquered in the 1967 War. The Palestinian response was to unleash an intifada of terror against Israeli civilians.
And what about the security wall that divides Israel and the West Bank? Is that an example of apartheid?
That this is even raised as an issue is remarkable. One might as well mention the security fence between the United States and Mexico as an example of apartheid. There is no difference between the American wall at its southern border and the Israeli wall on its eastern border. Both barriers have been built to keep unwanted people from entering the country.
Israel built its security wall in order to keep terrorists from entering Israel and murdering its citizens. What appears to bother those who work to delegitimize Israel by calling it an apartheid state is that the barrier has worked. The wall separating Israel from the West Bank has probably been the most successful terrorism-prevention program ever enacted.
http://townhall.com/columnist...
Palestine is Free. And would not be getting attacked if they would quit lobbing missiles into Israel, and sneaking across the border and killing Israeli Citizens.
How would you feel if Radical Americans were to start firing Rockets across the border and killing Canadian citizens. Or sneaking in at night and killing off families, or blowing themselves up in your crowded malls?
Why is it that if anyone is critical of Israel they are labeled as antisemitic? Even if they're Israeli's themselves? I'm the "hater" but it's the Israeli's who are murdering and oppressing millions of Palestinians. That makes sense. >.>
Also...The Israelis are oppressing and murdering millions of 'Palestinians'? Please don't embarrass yourself. It was the ARABS who attacked Israel at its birth, the Arabs who attempted to massacre every Jew in Palestine in 1948, the Arabs who ethnically cleansed almost a million Jews from the Arab world after plundering everything they owned...not the Jews. And it was Arab violence and unrest that caused the British to issue the White Paper on the eve of the Holocaust barring all Jewish immigration and trapping millions of Jews in Europe with no place to flee to. The Arabs are thus directly complicit in the death toll of the Holocaust.
The 'Palestinian' Arab leader, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini was an overt Nazi sympathizer and a great friend of Hitler and Eichmann, with whom he planned a death camp for Palestine's Jews to be located in Nablus. He recruited European Muslims for Hitler's SS and translated 'Mein Kampf' into Arabic, where it's still a best seller.
With that kind of history, if the Arabs gifted the Jews ten times more land than the state of Israel contains, it wouldn't compensate. The 'Palestinians' are lucky the Israelis haven't treated them the way the Arabs would treat Israel's Jews if the situation was reversed.
You're clearly brainwashed by the media as are a majority of Americans sadly. You think it's okay for the Israeli's to play the victim card to try and justify what they're doing in the region? The Arabs attacked Israel at it's birth? They attempted to massacre every Jew in Palestine? (Notice how you refrained from stating the number of Arabs Israeli forces killed during that conflict in 1948, or how it started). Before the Zionist movement, the Jews that lived among the Arabs in Palestine had friendly relations with each other. Things didn't get ugly until the Zionist movement where the Jews felt they needed a homeland so they all decided to migrate to Palestine. They used the "God gave us this land" ploy to justify what they were doing. They came into Palestine and pushed Arabs off their land, were the Arabs that were living there for centuries supposed to be okay with this? The British only supported them at first because they felt bad after what happened during WWII, they later went back on that and agreed that there should be ...
You're clearly brainwashed by the media as are a majority of Americans sadly. You think it's okay for the Israeli's to play the victim card to try and justify what they're doing in the region? The Arabs attacked Israel at it's birth? They attempted to massacre every Jew in Palestine? (Notice how you refrained from stating the number of Arabs Israeli forces killed during that conflict in 1948, or how it started). Before the Zionist movement, the Jews that lived among the Arabs in Palestine had friendly relations with each other. Things didn't get ugly until the Zionist movement where the Jews felt they needed a homeland so they all decided to migrate to Palestine. They used the "God gave us this land" ploy to justify what they were doing. They came into Palestine and pushed Arabs off their land, were the Arabs that were living there for centuries supposed to be okay with this? The British only supported them at first because they felt bad after what happened during WWII, they later went back on that and agreed that there should be a nation created for Palestinians.
I am sick of Israel playing the victim card when justifying their actions. Every day they are illegally infiltrating Palestinian regions and displacing Palestinians in order to create homes for Israeli pilgrims that continue migrating to Israel. Just about every country in the world realizes what Israel is doing is illegal. All the Palestinians want is a homeland, a place they can call home. What is so wrong with that? Why can an Israeli homeland be established but a Palestinian one can't? The saddest part is that the media only portrays the Israeli side of things since the Israelis control what journalists can publish thus once again displaying Israel as the victim and the Palestinians as these "terrorists", meanwhile they are pretty much defenseless against the Israelis.
The Americans sticking their nose into the mid-east and the Brits, French, Portugese and Spanish colonising Africa and N & S America and killing the inhabitants is/was all OK.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
I agree though that America/Europe should not be sticking it's nose in all this middle eastern business. America should also stop funding the Israeli military with American tax dollars. A lot of the problems probably could have been avoided if America among others hadn't helped aid in building up Israeli's defense so much.
I am impressed that they have contributed as much as they have to the sciences and arts
People have been hating jews for thousands of years and muslims for hundreds some people just need to hate
now I would like to change my vote to YES!
Start with who the Zionists were. The reason for Zionism and when that was. That should give you some clues.