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Facts about Israel you may not know:

1. Non-Jewish Israelis can't buy or lease land in Israel.

2. Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The United States awards Israel $5 billion in aid each year.

6. Yearly US aid to Israel exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole African continent.

7. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons.

8. 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.

9. Israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions.

10. Israel has for decades routinely sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies.

11. High-ranking military officers in the Israeli Occupation Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed by the IDF.

12. Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war.

13. Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses and land, and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the confiscation.

14. 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.

15. The second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders, is the Israeli AIPAC.

16. Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

17. Today 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.

18. It was not until 1988 that Israelis were barred from running "Jews Only" job ads.

19. 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.

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20. The Israeli Foreign Ministry pays two American public relations firms to promote Israel to Americans.

21. Israel's government includes a party which advocates expelling all Palestinians from the occupied territories.

22. Israel's settlement-building increased rapidly since Oslo.

23. Settlement building under Barak doubled compared to settlement building under Netanyahu.

24. Israel once dedicated a postage stamp to a man who attacked a civilian bus and killed several people.

25. Recently-declassified documents indicate that David Ben-Gurion in at least some instances approved of the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948.

26. 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." The Palestinians have already accepted Israel's existence on 78% of what was Palestine. For those who use the argument of the 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.

27. Palestinian Christians are considered the "living stones" of Christianity because they are the direct descendants of the disciples of Jesus Christ.

28. Despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice, torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners.

29. Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the refugee population in the world.

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