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Subject: FW: What they don't tell you about Isreal
> Subject: HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR'S THOUGHTS ON SHARON'S WAR.
>
> The following letter appeared in the April 16, 2002 edition of the
> Washington Post:
>
> "...Photos of the devastation in Jenin, West Bank, remind me of my
> childhood years in the Warsaw Ghetto. There, too, innocent civilians were
> shot on sight, houses were blown up indiscriminately, and humanitarian aid
> was blocked. At the end of that horrendous Holocaust, we said, "Never
> again." But now, it is we who are doing it again. For shame!" --- ALEX
> HERSHAFT Bethesda, MD
>
> ***WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT ISREAL:
>
> Did you know that non-Jew Israeli's 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 the U.S.A 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? (Initially provided by France)
>
> 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 and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the
> confiscation?
>
> Did you know that Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt
> and attacked a U.S. ship 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 today's Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400
> now-vanished Palestinian villages, and that the Israeli's renamed 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 Israel once dedicated a postage stamp to a man who
> attacked a civilian bus and killed several people?
>
> Did you know that recently-declassified documents indicate that David
> Ben-Gurion in at least some instances approved of the expulsion of
> Palestinians in 1948?
>
> We often hear of Ehud Barak's generosity about an alleged return of 95% of
> the Palestinian Occupied Territories. When Palestinians refused, they were
> blamed for "missing an opportunity." Did you know that the Palestinians
> have already accepted Israel's existence on 78% of what was Palestine?
>
>
> 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?
>
> PASS ON THE TRUTH...THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS LET OTHERS KNOW
>
> Here is a UN link that has some history of the region.
> http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/qpalnew/overview.htm
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