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*Did you know?*
1 - THAT, when the Palestine Problem was created by Britain in 1917,
more than 90% of the population of Palestine were Arabs, and that
there were at that time no more than 56,000 Jews in Palestine?
2 - THAT, more than half of the Jews living in Palestine at that time
were recent immigrants, who had come to Palestine in the preceding
decades in order to escape persecution in Europe?... And that less
than 5% of the population of Palestine were native Palestinian Jews?
3 - THAT, the Arabs of Palestine at that time owned 97.5% of the land,
while Jews (native Palestinians and recent immigrants together) owned
only 2.5% of the land?
4 - THAT, during the thirty years of British occupation and rule, the
Zionists were able to purchase only 3.5% of the land of Palestine, in
spite of the encouragement of the British Government?... And that much
of this land was transferred to Zionist bodies by the British
Government directly, and was not sold by Arab owners?
5 - THAT, therefore, when British passed the Palestine Problem to the
United Nations in 1947, Zionists owned no more than 6% of the total
land area of Palestine?
6 - THAT, notwithstanding these facts, the General Assembly of the
United Nations recommended that a "Jewish State" be established in
Palestine?... And that the Assembly granted that proposed "State"
about 54% of the total area of the country?
7 - THAT, Israel immediately occupied (and still occupies) 80.48% of
the total land area of Palestine?
8 - THAT, this territorial expansion took place, for the most part,
before 15 May 1948: i.e., before the formal end of the British forces
from Palestine, before the entry of Arab armies to protect Palestinian
Arabs, and before the Arab-Israeli war?
9 - THAT, the 1947 recommendation of the General Assembly in favor of
the creation of a "Jewish State" was outside the competence of the
Assembly under the Charter of the United Nations?
10 - THAT, all attempts by the Arab States and other Asian countries
to have the Assembly submit ³the question of constitutionality" of its
recommendation to the International Court of Justice for an "advisory
opinion" by the Court were rejected or ignored by the Assembly?
11 - THAT, when the Assembly began to experience "second thoughts"
over the matter and convened for its second special session in 1948,
it failed to reaffirm the 1947 recommendation for the partition of
Palestine-thus destroying whatever dubious legality that
recommendation for the establishment of a "Jewish State" had had?
12 - THAT, that original 1947 recommendation to create a "Jewish
State" in Palestine was approved, at the first vote, only by European,
American and Australian States...for every Asian State, and every
African State (with the exception of the Union of South Africa) voted
against it?...And that, when the vote was cast in plenary session on
29 November 1947, urgent American pressures (which a member of the
Truman cabinet described as "bordering onto scandal") had succeeded in
prevailing only upon one African country (Liberia), both of which had
special vulnerability to American pressures, to abandon their declared
opposition?...And that, in other words, the "Jewish State" was planted
at the point-of-intersection of Asia and Africa without the free
approval of any Middle Eastern, Asian or African country except that
Union of South Africa, itself ruled by an alien minority?
13 - THAT, Israel remained, ever since its inception, a total stranger
in the emerging world of Afro-Asia; and that Israel has been refused
admission to any inter-state conference of Asian, African, Afro-Asian,
or Non-Aligned States ever held?
14 - THAT, since the General Armistice Agreements were signed in 1949,
Israel has maintained an aggressive policy of waging military attacks
across the Armistice Demarcation Lines, repeatedly invading the
territories of the neighboring Arab States...And that Israel has been
duly rebuked, censured, or condemned for these military attacks by the
Security Council of the General Assembly of the United Nations on
eleven occasions-five times by the Security Council and six times by
the General Assembly?
15 - THAT, no other country in the world, whether member of the United
Nations or non-member, has been so frequently condemned by the United
Nations?
16 - THAT, no Arab State has ever been condemned by any organ of the
United Nations for military attacks upon Israel?
17 - THAT, besides expelling the bulk of the Arab inhabitants of
Palestine, and besides constantly attacking the neighboring Arab
States, Israel has also consistently harassed the United Nations
observers and other personnel stationed along the Armistice
Demarcation Lines: It has assassinated the first United Nations
Mediator and his military aide; it has detained some truce observers;
it has militarily occupied and illegally searched the Headquarters of
United Nations personnel; and it has boycotted meetings of the Mixed
Armistice Commissions?...
18 - THAT, Israel has additionally imposed a system of apartheid upon
the Arabs who stayed in their homeland? More than 90% of these Arabs
live in "security zones;" they alone live under martial law,
restricting their freedom to travel from village to village or from
town to town; their children are denied equal opportunities for
education; and they are denied decent opportunities for work, and the
right to receive "equal pay for equal work?"
19 - THAT, notwithstanding the foregoing facts, Israel has always
been, and still is, widely portrayed in the Western press as the
"bastion of democracy" and the "champion of peace" in the Middle East?
20 - THAT, the Western Powers have persisted in declaring their
determination to ensure a so-called "arms balance" in the area, as
between Israel, on the one hand, and the one-hundred million
inhabitants of the thirteen Arab States, on the other hand?... And
this unilateral Western doctrine of so-called "arms balance" is no
more reasonable than the suggestion that, in the Cuba-U.S.A conflict,
there should be "arms balance" as between Cuba and the United
States... or that the whole Continent of Africa should not be allowed
to acquire more arms than South Africa... or that Mainland China
should not be permitted to have more arms than Taiwan... or that the
military allowed to acquire more arms than South Africa... and that
only thus can peace be safeguarded in the Western Hemisphere, in
Africa, in Asia, or in Europe?...
21 _ THAT, Israel allots 85% of the water resources in the occupied
territories 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 500 settlers, while 15% must be divided among
Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?
22 _ THAT, The United States awards Israel $3 billion in aid each
year, more than to any other country in the world: US aid to Israel
exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole sub-Sahara Africa?
23 _ THAT, GDP, per capita, and consumption per capita in the Occupied
Territories have dropped about 15 percent in the West Bank and Gaza
since 1993 - that's even with large foreign assistance pouring in,
from Europe, mostly?
24 _ THAT, Up until 1993, the U.S. and Israel permitted humanitarian
aid to come into the territories. UN humanitarian aid was permitted
into the West Bank and Gaza. In 1993, that was restricted?
25 _ THAT, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has
nuclear weapons?
26 _ 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?
27 _ THAT, Israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign
nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security
Council resolutions?
28 _ THAT, High-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense
Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were
executed by the IDF?
29 _ THAT, Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have
acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
30 _ THAT, Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and
land from Palestinians and refuses to pay compensation to those who
suffer the confiscation?
31 _ THAT, Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security
Council Resolutions?
32 _ THAT, Israel's current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was found by
an Israeli court to be "personally responsible" for the Sabra and
Shatilla massacres in Lebanon in which thousands of unarmed
Palestinian refugees were slaughtered in 1982?
33 _ THAT, Today's Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400
destroyed Palestinian villages, and that the Israelis renamed almost
every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?
34 _ THAT, Ariel Sharon's coalition government includes a party --
Molodet -- which advocates expelling all [of the over two million]
Palestinians from [their homes in] the occupied territories?
35 _ THAT, Israel's illegal settlement-building in the Occupied
Palestinian territories more than doubled doubled in the eight years
since the Oslo agreements?
36 _ THAT, Illegal settlement building under Prime Minister Barak
doubled compared to settlement building under Prime Minister Netanyahu?
37 _ THAT, More illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian
territories were built under Prime Minister Barak than at any other
time in the history of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land?
38 _ THAT, Despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice,
torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?
39 _ THAT, Palestinian refugees make up the largest refugee population
in the world?
40 _ THAT, Israeli military checkpoints surround every Palestinian
population center in violation of the Oslo Accords?
41 _ THAT, The right of self-determination is guaranteed to every
human being under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December,
1948), yet Palestinians were/are expected to negotiate for this right
under the Oslo Accords?
42 _ THAT, Palestinians have the highest ratio of PhDs per capita in
the world?
1 - THAT, when the Palestine Problem was created by Britain in 1917,
more than 90% of the population of Palestine were Arabs, and that
there were at that time no more than 56,000 Jews in Palestine?
2 - THAT, more than half of the Jews living in Palestine at that time
were recent immigrants, who had come to Palestine in the preceding
decades in order to escape persecution in Europe?... And that less
than 5% of the population of Palestine were native Palestinian Jews?
3 - THAT, the Arabs of Palestine at that time owned 97.5% of the land,
while Jews (native Palestinians and recent immigrants together) owned
only 2.5% of the land?
4 - THAT, during the thirty years of British occupation and rule, the
Zionists were able to purchase only 3.5% of the land of Palestine, in
spite of the encouragement of the British Government?... And that much
of this land was transferred to Zionist bodies by the British
Government directly, and was not sold by Arab owners?
5 - THAT, therefore, when British passed the Palestine Problem to the
United Nations in 1947, Zionists owned no more than 6% of the total
land area of Palestine?
6 - THAT, notwithstanding these facts, the General Assembly of the
United Nations recommended that a "Jewish State" be established in
Palestine?... And that the Assembly granted that proposed "State"
about 54% of the total area of the country?
7 - THAT, Israel immediately occupied (and still occupies) 80.48% of
the total land area of Palestine?
8 - THAT, this territorial expansion took place, for the most part,
before 15 May 1948: i.e., before the formal end of the British forces
from Palestine, before the entry of Arab armies to protect Palestinian
Arabs, and before the Arab-Israeli war?
9 - THAT, the 1947 recommendation of the General Assembly in favor of
the creation of a "Jewish State" was outside the competence of the
Assembly under the Charter of the United Nations?
10 - THAT, all attempts by the Arab States and other Asian countries
to have the Assembly submit ³the question of constitutionality" of its
recommendation to the International Court of Justice for an "advisory
opinion" by the Court were rejected or ignored by the Assembly?
11 - THAT, when the Assembly began to experience "second thoughts"
over the matter and convened for its second special session in 1948,
it failed to reaffirm the 1947 recommendation for the partition of
Palestine-thus destroying whatever dubious legality that
recommendation for the establishment of a "Jewish State" had had?
12 - THAT, that original 1947 recommendation to create a "Jewish
State" in Palestine was approved, at the first vote, only by European,
American and Australian States...for every Asian State, and every
African State (with the exception of the Union of South Africa) voted
against it?...And that, when the vote was cast in plenary session on
29 November 1947, urgent American pressures (which a member of the
Truman cabinet described as "bordering onto scandal") had succeeded in
prevailing only upon one African country (Liberia), both of which had
special vulnerability to American pressures, to abandon their declared
opposition?...And that, in other words, the "Jewish State" was planted
at the point-of-intersection of Asia and Africa without the free
approval of any Middle Eastern, Asian or African country except that
Union of South Africa, itself ruled by an alien minority?
13 - THAT, Israel remained, ever since its inception, a total stranger
in the emerging world of Afro-Asia; and that Israel has been refused
admission to any inter-state conference of Asian, African, Afro-Asian,
or Non-Aligned States ever held?
14 - THAT, since the General Armistice Agreements were signed in 1949,
Israel has maintained an aggressive policy of waging military attacks
across the Armistice Demarcation Lines, repeatedly invading the
territories of the neighboring Arab States...And that Israel has been
duly rebuked, censured, or condemned for these military attacks by the
Security Council of the General Assembly of the United Nations on
eleven occasions-five times by the Security Council and six times by
the General Assembly?
15 - THAT, no other country in the world, whether member of the United
Nations or non-member, has been so frequently condemned by the United
Nations?
16 - THAT, no Arab State has ever been condemned by any organ of the
United Nations for military attacks upon Israel?
17 - THAT, besides expelling the bulk of the Arab inhabitants of
Palestine, and besides constantly attacking the neighboring Arab
States, Israel has also consistently harassed the United Nations
observers and other personnel stationed along the Armistice
Demarcation Lines: It has assassinated the first United Nations
Mediator and his military aide; it has detained some truce observers;
it has militarily occupied and illegally searched the Headquarters of
United Nations personnel; and it has boycotted meetings of the Mixed
Armistice Commissions?...
18 - THAT, Israel has additionally imposed a system of apartheid upon
the Arabs who stayed in their homeland? More than 90% of these Arabs
live in "security zones;" they alone live under martial law,
restricting their freedom to travel from village to village or from
town to town; their children are denied equal opportunities for
education; and they are denied decent opportunities for work, and the
right to receive "equal pay for equal work?"
19 - THAT, notwithstanding the foregoing facts, Israel has always
been, and still is, widely portrayed in the Western press as the
"bastion of democracy" and the "champion of peace" in the Middle East?
20 - THAT, the Western Powers have persisted in declaring their
determination to ensure a so-called "arms balance" in the area, as
between Israel, on the one hand, and the one-hundred million
inhabitants of the thirteen Arab States, on the other hand?... And
this unilateral Western doctrine of so-called "arms balance" is no
more reasonable than the suggestion that, in the Cuba-U.S.A conflict,
there should be "arms balance" as between Cuba and the United
States... or that the whole Continent of Africa should not be allowed
to acquire more arms than South Africa... or that Mainland China
should not be permitted to have more arms than Taiwan... or that the
military allowed to acquire more arms than South Africa... and that
only thus can peace be safeguarded in the Western Hemisphere, in
Africa, in Asia, or in Europe?...
21 _ THAT, Israel allots 85% of the water resources in the occupied
territories 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 500 settlers, while 15% must be divided among
Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?
22 _ THAT, The United States awards Israel $3 billion in aid each
year, more than to any other country in the world: US aid to Israel
exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole sub-Sahara Africa?
23 _ THAT, GDP, per capita, and consumption per capita in the Occupied
Territories have dropped about 15 percent in the West Bank and Gaza
since 1993 - that's even with large foreign assistance pouring in,
from Europe, mostly?
24 _ THAT, Up until 1993, the U.S. and Israel permitted humanitarian
aid to come into the territories. UN humanitarian aid was permitted
into the West Bank and Gaza. In 1993, that was restricted?
25 _ THAT, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has
nuclear weapons?
26 _ 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?
27 _ THAT, Israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign
nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security
Council resolutions?
28 _ THAT, High-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense
Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were
executed by the IDF?
29 _ THAT, Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have
acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
30 _ THAT, Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and
land from Palestinians and refuses to pay compensation to those who
suffer the confiscation?
31 _ THAT, Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security
Council Resolutions?
32 _ THAT, Israel's current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was found by
an Israeli court to be "personally responsible" for the Sabra and
Shatilla massacres in Lebanon in which thousands of unarmed
Palestinian refugees were slaughtered in 1982?
33 _ THAT, Today's Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400
destroyed Palestinian villages, and that the Israelis renamed almost
every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?
34 _ THAT, Ariel Sharon's coalition government includes a party --
Molodet -- which advocates expelling all [of the over two million]
Palestinians from [their homes in] the occupied territories?
35 _ THAT, Israel's illegal settlement-building in the Occupied
Palestinian territories more than doubled doubled in the eight years
since the Oslo agreements?
36 _ THAT, Illegal settlement building under Prime Minister Barak
doubled compared to settlement building under Prime Minister Netanyahu?
37 _ THAT, More illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian
territories were built under Prime Minister Barak than at any other
time in the history of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land?
38 _ THAT, Despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice,
torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?
39 _ THAT, Palestinian refugees make up the largest refugee population
in the world?
40 _ THAT, Israeli military checkpoints surround every Palestinian
population center in violation of the Oslo Accords?
41 _ THAT, The right of self-determination is guaranteed to every
human being under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December,
1948), yet Palestinians were/are expected to negotiate for this right
under the Oslo Accords?
42 _ THAT, Palestinians have the highest ratio of PhDs per capita in
the world?
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