DID You Know ????


•       Did you know ... that non-Jewish Israelis can't buy or lease land in
Israel?

•       Did you know... that Palestinian license plates in Israel are colour 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 United States awards Israel up to $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 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 Defence 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 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 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 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 wereblamed 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 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?



Well, now you know.......What will you do about it? .....
THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS LET OTHERS KNOW