Not So Cool Facts About Israel

Israel, a country the size of New Jersey,
can only claim to the following achievements:

1. Israel was established upon the ruins of another nation that she destroyed: Palestine.



2. Israel holds the world record in the number of towns and villages she has ethnically cleansed: 500+



3. Israel holds the world record in the number of refugees she deported: 4 million+



4. Israel holds the world record in the number of homes she demolished: 60 thousand+



5. Israel is the country with the highest record of UN condemnation: 500 times+



6. Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security Council vetoes: 100 times+



7. Israel has killed more innocent civilians per capita than any other country: 50,000+



8. Israel has imprisoned more civilians per capita than any other country: 250,000+



9. Israel has rendered more innocent civilians handicapped per capita than any other country: 50,000+



10. Israel has injured more innocent civilians per capita than any other country: 200,000+



11. Israel has only two countries to defend its policies in the United Nations; these are the US and Micronesia



12. Israel is the only country on Earth that denies the right of return of refugees.



13. Israel is the only country on Earth that still occupies a whole other country and parts of two other countries.



14. Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly steals the water of its neighbors.



15. Israel is the only country on Earth that has legalized home demolishing as a method of collective punishment.



16. Israel is the only country on Earth that uproots trees as a method of collective punishment.



17. Israel is the only country on Earth that deliberately targets civilian infrastructure, and justifies it.



18. Israel is the only country on Earth that has legalized assassination.



19. Israel stands unique in using human shields in military operations.



20. Amongst all countries Israel is the only one that has legalized torture.



21. Israel is the only country on Earth that builds illegal settlements in occupied lands.



22. Israel is the only country on Earth that publicly jails activists without trial.



23. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel has created the highest number of checkpoints.



24. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Israel holds the world record in the number of days of curfew she installed on the Palestinians.



25. Israel is the only country on whose checkpoints women, denied access to hospital, give birth, babies usually die.



26. Israel is exceptional in being the only country on whose checkpoints patients die due to denied access to hospitals.



27. Israel is the only country on whose checkpoints wedding parties end.



28. Israel is the only country on Earth on whose checkpoints school children, denied access to school, end having their cl.



29. Israel is one of two countries that, against the International Law, use cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs.



30. Israel holds the world record in the number of soldiers refusing to serve in the army. (Actually a cool fact about a not so cool army).



31. Israel despite being a rich country, receives the highest financial aid, more than the sum aid to all sub-Saharan Africa.



32. Israel claims its enemies want to wipe it off the map, but she has indeed wiped a whole country off the map! Palestine



33. Israel is the country that has introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East. But the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.



34. After East Germany, Israel is the only country that is building a segregation wall.



35. Second to South Africa, Israel is the only current country to establish an apartheid regime.



36. Israeli engineers developed the world's first: Iron Gates on the roads



37. Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first: Cities turned into jails, with gates and opening hours



38. Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first: Apartheid walls



39. Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first: Electrified segregation fences



40. Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first: Eye specific rubber bullets



41. Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first: Abortion efficient, infant killing tear gas



42. Israeli engineers developed the worlds' first: Humiliation guaranteed human cages.



43. Israel is the only country on Earth that has a political party that publicly advocates ethnic cleansing of the native citizens.



44. Israel is the only country that still has racist laws that discriminate against its native citizens.



45. Israel is the only country known to have a memorial dedicated to a terrorist, where his followers gather and dance. [Baruch Goldstein]



46. Israel is the only country on Earth that imprisons kids for political reasons.



47. Israel is the only country on Earth where you get a one-month community service for intentionally smashing the head of a child.



48. What other country does not hold its soldiers accountable for shooting peace activists in cold blood? [Tom Hurndall]



49. No other country has towns and cities allocated exclusively for one ethnic group.



50. The only place on Earth where people live in homes stolen from living refugees is Israel.



51. The only place on Earth where people cultivate fields stolen from living refugees is Israel.



52. Israel has the highest number of towns built upon ethnically cleansed villages, whose former residents are living refugees.



53. Israel ranks amongst the top countries in lack of security. [Irony?]