Happy 64th Birthday, Israel!

[Jroc]

What’s so special about a country’s 64th birthday?

Well, in the case of most nations, perhaps not all that much, unless the country happens to be Israel, which celebrates its birthday this year on April 25 and 26.

Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only UN member state whose right to exist is regularly challenged, whose elimination from the world map is the aim of at least one other UN member state, Iran, and whose population centers are deemed fair game by Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon. Thus, Israel’s sheer act of survival from year to year is itself noteworthy.

None of the countries that are serial human-rights violators – not Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Sudan, or any of the others – gets anything near the relentless, obsessive, guilty-till-proven-innocent scrutiny that democratic Israel receives from UN bodies, with their built-in, anti-Israel majorities, in New York and Geneva.
No other country is the target of such non-stop, well-funded, and highly-organized campaigns to discredit, delegitimize, and demonize a sovereign state.

No other country faces such systematic attempts to launch boycotts, divestment campaigns, and sanctions against it, not to mention flotillas and flytillas, and all the while those behind the efforts, claiming to speak for human rights, blithely ignore places like Syria, where thousands were killed in the past year alone, because they can’t claim an Israeli connection.

And no other country has its right to self-defense challenged as Israel does, even though it does no more than any other nation would do if confronted by periodic terrorist assaults and deadly missile and rocket attacks.

I have enormous admiration for Israel – for its resolve, resilience, courage, and ingenuity.

Other nations might have succumbed, after 64 years of uninterrupted hostility, to the enemies trying everything under the sun to destroy them and, short of that, to demoralize and isolate them. But Israel has not flinched. It refuses to cave. It keeps confounding its foes.

Happy 64th Birthday, Israel! | Jerusalem Post - Blogs

 

[Jroc]

It is said that some of the Condemned Jews of Europe would sing this song on the way to the gas Chambers. Israel National Anthem "Hatikva" (The Hope)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNfNCkTR2Tg&feature=related]Anthem of Israel - "Hatikvah", "The Hope", w/ Hebrew and English lyrics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Jroc]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syUSmEbGLs4&feature=related]Hatikva at Bergen-Belsen - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAKFlpdcfc]Applause - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Truthseeker420]

 

[uscitizen]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

 

[High_Gravity]

They will achieve 64 more years.

 

[Artevelde]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

Talk about simplistic thinking.

 

[Artevelde]

They will achieve 64 more years.

More I would hope, barring the imminent end of the World.

 

[uscitizen]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

Talk about simplistic thinking.

yes but truth.

 

[Artevelde]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

Talk about simplistic thinking.

yes but truth.

Not at all. Just plain nonsense.

 

[JStone]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

Google is terrorist, stooge. Do the arabs have a search engine?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnC0vDx048]Innovation at Google's R&D Center in Israel - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Intense]

Happy Birthday, Israel!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN11bI1_sZo]Emerson Lake & Palmer "Jerusalem" - YouTube[/ame]
Emerson Lake & Palmer "Jerusalem"

 

[uscitizen]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9DHgnKeAxo]Onward christian soldiers - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

Onward christian soldiers - YouTube

Open a Bible, dink. Jesus was Jewish.

Matthew 2:1-2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

 

[High_Gravity]

Happy Birthday Israel!

 

[AquaAthena]

What’s so special about a country’s 64th birthday?

Well, in the case of most nations, perhaps not all that much, unless the country happens to be Israel, which celebrates its birthday this year on April 25 and 26.

Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only UN member state whose right to exist is regularly challenged, whose elimination from the world map is the aim of at least one other UN member state, Iran, and whose population centers are deemed fair game by Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon. Thus, Israel’s sheer act of survival from year to year is itself noteworthy.

None of the countries that are serial human-rights violators – not Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Sudan, or any of the others – gets anything near the relentless, obsessive, guilty-till-proven-innocent scrutiny that democratic Israel receives from UN bodies, with their built-in, anti-Israel majorities, in New York and Geneva.
No other country is the target of such non-stop, well-funded, and highly-organized campaigns to discredit, delegitimize, and demonize a sovereign state.

No other country faces such systematic attempts to launch boycotts, divestment campaigns, and sanctions against it, not to mention flotillas and flytillas, and all the while those behind the efforts, claiming to speak for human rights, blithely ignore places like Syria, where thousands were killed in the past year alone, because they can’t claim an Israeli connection.

And no other country has its right to self-defense challenged as Israel does, even though it does no more than any other nation would do if confronted by periodic terrorist assaults and deadly missile and rocket attacks.

I have enormous admiration for Israel – for its resolve, resilience, courage, and ingenuity.

Other nations might have succumbed, after 64 years of uninterrupted hostility, to the enemies trying everything under the sun to destroy them and, short of that, to demoralize and isolate them. But Israel has not flinched. It refuses to cave. It keeps confounding its foes.

Happy 64th Birthday, Israel! | Jerusalem Post - Blogs

And with this wonderful leader, as your guide, may you stay militarily strong. Soon we will have a president who will value and support your goals of freedom and liberty, as you have valued ours.

 

[Rocko]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

LMAO

You're trying to say Israel is a bad country because of the tactics used a long time ago to end them being colonized. Not to mention what you said isn't even factualy correct. Yeah, you don't have a bias.

 

[JStone]

Happy Birthday Israel!

Certified kosher

 

[Rocko]

Ahh modern Israel. The only country in modern times founded upon a terrorist bombing.

Google King David Hotel bombing.

Talk about simplistic thinking.

yes but truth.

No, but not.

America wasn't founded on terroism??

No country has a perfect history, and what you're trying to imply is shameful.