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Hello, I'm back from my vacation and I'm happy to send you once again the free weekly FactsOfIsrael.com newsletter. I was away in Brazil for the past two weeks, and unfortunately I was not able to send the newsletter while on the road. I was born in Brazil, and seeing their love of soccer and support for their nation during the World Cup has always inspired me. I also noticed something relevant to Israel and her fight against Palestinian terrorism this time around: how much Brazilians love life. Some of them, particularly the black, whose ancestors were brought on slave ships 400-500 years ago, live in shanty towns, in the poorest areas in the world. While visiting Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, I was amazed at how little resentment they have of their condition, and how happy they were about their Samba, Carnaval, or simply in their support for their soccer team. Although making barely enough to eat everyday (and some not everyday), I did not see one Brazilian willing to strap explosives to his/her body and walk into a mall in the rich areas of Sao Paulo or Rio. I didn't see one Brazilian who thought that killing and murdering the children of the rich would bring them any social justice. So much for the argument that Palestinians don't have a choice but to kill Israelis out of desperation. They should start dancing Samba and think about bettering their lives - creating a State of their own, instead of destroying Israel. But I guess that's too much to ask from the Palestinian eternal victims - Palestinians are defined by their hate and wishes of destruction of the Jewish State. As a Jew and an Israeli, I am today dedicated in making sure that does not happen.
Thanks for being interested in the facts,
Fact Number 97 One of the reasons that
Palestinians refused an independent Palestinian State in October
2000 was the "right of return". This is a right that would allow
millions of Palestinian refugees to immigrate to the State of Israel
instead of immigrating to the new Palestinian State. This would in
practice mean the end of the Jewish State and Israelis that do not
want to see the end of Israel will never accept the right of
return.
I find it incredible that Palestinian society still lives in this dream of the "right of return" - from left to right (excluding the Arab parties, see the democracy page), Israelis across the political spectrum will fight it with all their might. For me, realizing that this was a peace showstopper for Palestinians was also realizing that the majority of Palestinians still do not accept the existence of a Jewish State in the Middle East and want the destruction of Israel - this is just another way to reach that goal. For an in-depth analysis of the Palestinian 'right of return', click here. For a Palestinian Website whose only purpose is the right of return and the destruction of Israel, click here.
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Hadar Hershkowitz, 15
Hadar Hershkowitz, 15, murdered by a Palestinian homicide/suicide bomber
The bomber set off a pipe bomb
in the Jamil shwarma restaurant on Sokolov Street, close to the Lev Ha'ir mall,
around 7:40 P.M. in the heart of the coastal city of Herzliya. There were around
30 people in the restaurant at the time. Hadar Hershkowitz had gone with a
friend to the nearby Kapulsky cafe, and was passing by the shwarma restaurant
when the blast occurred. She was mortally wounded and died on the operating
table.
May God bless her memory.
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