Israel.....a nation steamrolled into existence over the instant ruins of another--Palestine. Some other glowing candles for its 62nd Birthday Cake:
• Israel holds the world record in the number of towns & villages it ethnically cleansed: Over 500
• Israel holds the world record in the number of refugees it's created: Over 4,000,000
• Israel holds the world record in the number of homes it demolished: Over 60,000
• Israel is the country with the highest record of UN condemnations: Over 500
• Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security council vetoes: Over 100
• Israel has killed more innocent civilians per capita than any other country: Over 50,000
• Israel has imprisoned more civilians per capita than any other country: Over 250,000
• Israel has rendered more innocent civilians handicapped per capita than any other country: Over 50,000
• Israel has injured more innocent civilians per capita than any other country: Over 200,000
• Israel has only two countries to defend its policies in the United Nations. These countries are America & Micronesia. The population for Micronesia, as of June 2008, was 108,000
• Israel is the only country on Earth that denies the right of return of refugees
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still occupies a whole other country & parts of two other countries
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly steals the water of its neighbours
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has legalized home demolishing as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that uproots trees as a method of collective punishment
• Israel is the only country on Earth that deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and justifies it
• Israel is the only country on Earth that legalized assassination
• Israel stands unique in using human shields in military operations
• Amongst all countries, Israel is the only one that has legalized torture
• Israel is the only country on Earth that builds illegal settlements in occupied lands
• Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly jails activists without trial
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel has created the highest number of checkpoints
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel holds the world record in the number of curfews imposed on the Palestinians
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints deny women access to hospitals, many who've been forced to give birth alone, with fatal results.
• Israel is exceptional in being the only country on Earth whose checkpoints denies patients access to hospitals, with fatal results.
• Israel is the only country on Earth whose checkpoints are where wedding parades come to an end
• Israel is the only country on Earth who checkpoints school children, denies them access to school, and puts an end to their classes
• Israel is one of two countries that, against International Law, uses cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs. America is the other.
• Israel holds the world record in the number of soldiers refusing to serve in the army
• Israel, despite being a rich country, receives the highest financial aid, more than the sum aid to all sub-Saharan Africa.
• While talking about its enemies wanting to wipe it off the map, Israel is in the 62nd year of finishing the wiping of another country--Palestine--off the map. With American tax dollars.
• Israel is the county that has introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East, but continues to be the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
• After East Germany, Israel has been the only country that is building a segregation wall
• Second to South Africa, Israel is the only country to establish an apartheid regime
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first iron gates on roads
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first cities-turned-to-jails, with gates and opening hours
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first apartheid walls
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first electrified segregation fences
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first "eyes specific" rubber bullets
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first abortion-efficient, infant killing tear gas
• Israeli engineers developed the world's first humiliation-guaranteed human cages
• Israel is the only country on Earth that has a political party that publicly advocates ethnic cleansing of native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth that still has racist laws that discriminate against native citizens (Palestinians)
• Israel is the only country on Earth known to have a memorial dedicated to a terrorist where his followers gather and dance
• Israel is the only country on Earth that imprisons children for political reasons
• Israel is the only country on Earth where you get a one month community service for deliberately smashing the head of a child
• Israel is the only country on Earth that does not hold its soldiers accountable for shooting--and bulldozing to death--peace activists in cold blood
• No other country on Earth has towns and cities allocated exclusively for one ethnic group
• The only country on Earth, where people live in homes stolen from living refugees is, Israel
• The only place on Earth where people cultivate fields stolen from living refugees is Israel
• Israel has the highest number of towns built upon ethnically cleansed villages, whose former residents are living refugees
“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border...."
-- Zionism Founder Theodor Herzl
Diary Entry, 1895
Happy birthday Israel.
Cake and ice cream, anyone?
