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From: "julian samuel" <jjsamuel-AT-vif.com>
Subject: Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in Israel?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:01:10 -0700


Dear List members:

    Facts mentioned daily by the mass media.

Julian

Did You Know?



Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis 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 United States 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?

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 in to
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 blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt
and
attacked a U.S. ship in 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 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 the Palestinians have already accepted Israel's existence
on
78% of what was Palestine. Bible: God said to Abraham, "Unto thy seed, I
will
give thy land." Abraham had two sons. Ismael-the Arab son, and Isaac-the
Jewish son. So even if one wants to go to the Bible, the land would belong
to
both.

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?

WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT THIS???
Source: arab_nationalist-AT-yahoogroups.com

=============
DID YOU ALSO KNOW...

Did you know that in 1967 there were only 3 Jewish settlement camps, whereas
today there are more than 195?

Did you know that there is absolutely no archeological evidence for the
existence of the first Jewish Temple?

Did you know that the quOtation from the Bible regarding the Chosen People
returning to their land refers to the Negev desert specifically? Which
means,
why are the Jewish people not living in the Negev (yes, of course it's
inhabitable, but that is the location as spoken by God)?

Did you know that extra items for Israel are buried in the budgets of the
Pentagon and other federal agencies? There were $1.271 billion in extras in
FY
1993, $355.3 million in FY 1996 and $525.8 million in FY 1997. These
represent
an average
increase of 12.2 percent over the officially recorded foreign aid totals for
the same fiscal years. It's reasonable to assume, therefore, that a similar
12.2 percent hidden increase has prevailed over all of the years Israel has
received aid.

Did you know that Israel receives its annual foreign aid appropriation
during
the first month of the fiscal year, instead of in
quarterly installments as do other recipients? This enables Israel to invest
the money in U.S. Treasury notes. That means that the U.S., which has to
borrow the money it gives to Israel, pays interest on the money it has
granted
to Israel in advance, while at the same time Israel is collecting interest
on
the money.

Did you know that US aid to Israel accounts for $14,346 each for each man,
woman and child in Israel?

Did you know that Israel has never been required to repay a U.S. government
loan? Most U.S. loans to Israel are forgiven, on other loans, Israel was
expected to pay the interest and eventually to begin repaying the principal.

Did you know that most countries receiving U.S. military aid funds are
expected to use them for U.S. arms, ammunition and training. Israel can
spend
part of these funds on weapons made by Israeli manufacturers?

Did you know that, excluding all of these extra costs, America's $84.8
billion
in aid to Israel from fiscal years 1949 through 1998, and the interest the
U.S. paid to borrow this money, has cost U.S. taxpayers $134.8 billion, not
adjusted for inflation?

Did you know that therefore the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million
Israelis received from the U.S. government by Oct. 31, 1997 has cost
American
taxpayers $23,240 per Israeli?

====Sources:  Mazim Qumsiyeh Al-Awda, Ph.D. of Yale University, "Jerusalem - One
City Three Faiths" by Karen Armstrong, and MIFTAH.org (Hanan Ashrawi's
website), "The Arabs," by Peter Mansfield, and the article "The Cost of
Israel
to U.S. Taxpayers," by Richard H. Curtiss












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