Happy Birthday Israel
(Excerpted from an anonymous piece circulating on the Internet. We don’t usually do this, but it struck us as particularly Israeli and particularly appropriate.)
The country the UN “gave us” was 65% desert. We have today a country, an army, a strong air force. A high-tech economy, exporting millions.
Intel, Microsoft and IBM develop their stuff here. Our doctors win world prizes for medical developments. We made the desert flourish, selling oranges and vegetables to the world.
(Excerpted from an anonymous piece circulating on the Internet. We don’t usually do this, but it struck us as particularly Israeli and particularly appropriate.)
The country the UN “gave us” was 65% desert. We have today a country, an army, a strong air force. A high-tech economy, exporting millions.
Intel, Microsoft and IBM develop their stuff here. Our doctors win world prizes for medical developments. We made the desert flourish, selling oranges and vegetables to the world.
Israel has sent its own satellite into space!! Three in all!! We sit proudly with the U.S., with 250 million people; with Russia, with 200 million people; with China, with 1.1 billion people; with the Europeans – with 350 million people – as the only countries in the world to shoot something into space!!
Who the hell is Mr. Arafat to make me scared? To make me terrified? You make me laugh!
Passover was celebrated; let’s not forget what the story is all about.
- We overcame Pharaoh
- We overcame the Greeks
- We overcame the Romans
- We overcame the Inquisition in Spain
- We overcame the Pogroms in Russia
- We overcame Hitler
- We overcame the Germans
- We overcame the Holocaust
- We overcame the armies of the seven Arab countries
- We overcame Saddam.
Take it easy, folks, we will overcome the present enemies too.
So, sorry for not worrying, not bitching, not crying, not being scared.
Things are O.K. here.
They surely can be better; but still, don’t fall for the media junk. They won’t tell you that there are festivals going on, that people keep on living, that people are going out, that people are seeing friends.
Yes, our morale is low. So what? It’s only because we weep for our dead while they enjoy the blood.
This is the same reason why we will win, after all.