Israel, a nation the size of New Jersey, can only lay claim to the following achievements: Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world. Israel has the second highest output of books published per citizen in the world. Israelis hold more patents per person than do citizens of any other nation. More than 85% of all solid waste in Israel is treated in an environmentally sound manner. Israeli companies, Amdocs, Comverse and Nice pioneered voicemail, SMS and other cellular phone services. Israel has the highest concentration of high tech companies industries in the world, relative to it’s population. ICQ, the technology that powers AOL Instant Messenger, was developed in 1996 by a team of 4 young Israelis. Israeli start-up company TransChip developed the first high resolution camera that fits on a single electronic chip, for use in cellular phones. Israel is one of only eight countries in the world capable of launching their own satellites into space. Israelis developed the world’s first cellphone at the Motorola research lab in Haifa, that companies largest research center in the world. Israel ranks third, after the US and Canada, in the number of publicly traded companies on Wall Street. Israel has more scientists and engineers per capita than any other nation in the world. American industry giants such as GM, Ford and Lockheed Martin manage their manufacturing facilities using software written by Tecnomatix, an Israeli company. Israeli company Given Imaging developed a video camera small enough to fit inside of a pill. The camera helps doctors diagnose digestive tract diseases. Israeli scientists developed the first computerized radiation free diagnostic scanning device for detecting breast cancer. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation in the world.

Think about it--- We could have flattended lebonnon in 2 days last summer if we didnt care about human right and lost none of our brothers and sisters. We could crush gaza now as well in 2 days....The problem Israel is WAY TO politically correct and and they are giving the arabs rights they do not deserve. Why can we get missels shot in our yards randomly but we need to pinpoint shots and let arabs shoot their kaytushas at us from hospitals and schools. Its time to say the HELL with Arab rights and politcal correctness, wake up smell the coffee, realize Hamas, Al Quida, Fatah etc are all the same Crap and wipe them off the face of this earth.. Enough BS with UN etc. Lets clean the issue or this will go on forever.

From now on the above council has rightfully won its fourth acronym "S": The Human Rights Council of Shame.

Your question like so many other questions are debatable, but in Israel's case there are about 10,000 reasons why the United States sides with and supports Israel. I sincerely believe you should pose this question to your countrymen and countrywomen and I am almost certain you will get abundant reasons why they support, cherish and even love ISRAEL.

To be fair, the Palestinians have the greatest number of suicide bombers per capita, as well as the largest number of openly terrorist organizations in the world. The Arab world can lay claim to the greatest number of openly anti semitic regimes and populations in the world, by any standard of measurement. There are more copies of Mein Kampf sold in Arabic today than in any other language. In fact, the only volume more popular in Arab homes is the Quran. According to UN Human Development Report, the Arab world has the lowest standard of education in the world, save for sub Saharan Africa. Given that there are virtually no schools in sub Saharan Africa, that is quite an educational milestone. Of course, who the Palestinians are is no secret. We have seen those realities for decades. What is more interesting is to see those who doggedly support the Palestinians, despite seeing the barbarism first hand. That says a whole lot more about them than it does about the Palestinians.

You sit in St. Louis and yet you know what the truth is? Until you are in our position,don't condemn us. Most of what you said,"Buiding an Aperthied wall" is based on what the media wants you to know. The wall is put up in some spots to stop snipers shooting into homes of Israelis,most of the wall is a fence almost 90% I think. "Bulldozing civilians homes" is because the terrorist use Palestinians civilian homes as their spot to shoot into Israeli homes,or are used as home to dig tunnels into Israel. "Occupation" Every time Israel gave land back to the pals,they use it as a place to attack Israel from,we moved out of Gaza and they payed us back by shooting Kassam missiles into Israel and until you experience one landing by you,like I have,you have no idea of the damage it can do. "Firing missiles into civilian area" like in Lebanon is because that is where the terrorist fire their missilies from. Where there were no missilies fired from,that area was not fired upon by Israel. "Taxation with out represention" The Pals who worked in Israel got a pretty good deal and the taxs if any they were little,we in Israel payed a higer tax than the Pals,they also got medical care and pensions from Israel. As far as a democratically elected govenment,well you see what happened to the voters,who were not from Hammas. I suggest you go this site and read it. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html and a short 10 min film. http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

UN,EU,USA,Russia,China, are a business company.A big ,huge business's company. This company is run by wicked men. They have incredible quantity of money,since they also control the treasure of their countries,in other words the money collectet from the people,and so they are able to mantain their estructure without any problem.They can pay Media;they can pay employes;they can pay anything to fulfill their goals. Their goals: THEY CREATE TROUBLES in Africa,Asia,South and Central America,every where they see as weak.They keep poverty and/or wars in these places,in order TO SELL SOLUTIONS! This is their job:keep the trouble alive and sell the solution for the trouble they create,in an infinite way,keeping their industry thriving. They have their instrumental organizations called NATO;UNWRA;UN....etc,in order to implement their business resolutions. But among their "clients" there is a small group called Jewish People,now gathering back in Israel. To this people they have not only financial interests, but as well a pernicious,hateful,sadismic goal:they don't want Jewish People free in their country,a country acquired with extremely difficulties.They want our youngs in the army;they want Jewish people permanently opressed by wars and suffering.They don't like to see us thriving despite anything,despite all those troubles they create to us,(and this fact make they hate us even more) They have the milenar hate on Jews alive on them.They fear the Jews,because they know what are our minds and spirits able to do FOR THE GOOD of the humanity and for the good of ourselves. They don't want Jews competing with them. And besides,we Jews do not bow to them.Yes ,some corrupted polititian do,but ultimately,they know,we never bow,because WE KNOW our ways,and they can not stand with that. Now, we are living a crucial moment in the history.A moment that has happened in our hystory for 4000 years,due to the fails of our own leaders.The moment now is that this "enterprise" want to take us over.More likely ,sole USA. We had the babilonians,the greks,and others, and finally the Roman Empire with the same goal.All them wanted the same:Israel and the end of the"stone in their shoes"! History has not changed! IF WE DO NOT CHANGE THE HISTORY,THE HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED! ISRAEL MUST BE THE ROSH NOT THE ZANAV! WE MUST UNDERSTAND THIS,ONCE AND FOR ALL!

What is Israel giving to the US? Unfortunetely, we are the main buyer of your weapons, arms, and military supply in general. That'e enough to keep your belly full ! Sometimes I tend to believe that your country is creating all this mess!!

people can see now why the UN is not respected by any decent free country...the UN is full of corruption and backdoor handouts to support adn appease moslem and african countries who have only power and dictatorship in their minds...the UN is outrageously bias against the free world and especialy Israel

IF the UN likes to reward dictatorships and human rights violators and to punish democracies, maybe it is time for democracies to stop funding the United Nations and to make evident that, as it is now, UN is a MEANINGLESS organization that has betrayed it's own purposes and credo, like it happened in 1921 with the League of the Nations. UN is a financiary moloch that has clearly showed to be unable to deal with REAL emergencies, such as Rwanda or Somalia.

Why support Israel? Cuz the 6th fleet can dock and resupply here. Cuz the army and air force (yours) station supplies here. Cuz we provide you with intell (oh heck, and with Intel too, for that matter). Cuz American corporations have huge investments here. What have we given you? Well, lots of the guts and brains that are in the laptop or desktop you're using, for one. And your cellphone technology too. And voip for three. Carumba? Are you that ignorant? Are you that small-minded that you're willing to abandon the region to the Islamic whackos who want you dead? Too late, Mark, but America is going to have to invest a lot more time, money and unfortunately, lives, in the Middle East in order to make sure your derriere remains safe.

Dear Sir The first thing you should do is to see the present situation as is among the Palestinians. If Fatah was and is corrupt $ $ $ The Hamas is probably the same and much worse. Plus, they are Muslim killers. They LOVE to Kill other Muslims, if for example they are not growing long Beards ! And my Dear Friends... this is only the beginning of the Palestinian Problems. I have no intention here to write a book to educate you. Hate of the JEWS, My Dear friend is not your solution. If the terrorists would use all that money Zillions of $ $ $, to create INSTEAD...Love, Education, Economical Progress for their people * * *A D I O S * * * >>> Refugees and Poverty <<< Shalom from Houston Alberto

Hate Ridden Community Personally I would not expect anything else, its nothing new and they are not worth getting upset about. G-d will have his say. When the Useless Nations colapses like the League of Nations did.

I think Aussie´s message was kind of manipulative. The palestinian people are not the cause of problems. They turn to Hamas and resort to violence, because that´s all they have basically. The israelis and Israelis organizations are not doing much to help them. Many palestinians are very smart, but they are not very strong, unfortunately and they DO NEED our support. With our support they are strong enough to resist extremic muslim organizations. Right now they are depending on Organizations like Hamas and the "help" that they provide. There is no need to dehumanize Palestinian people, because a large part of them are good people. The evil ones are a minority, but unfortunately at the moment they have a lot of power in the Palestine. I have gotten to know Palestinian immigrants in Finland and Sweden in recent years, and I would really love work in Palestine some day and among others try to help the Palestinians. But I´m not dumb enough to take a risk of getting a bullet in my head. However, I don´t want people, israelis or palestinians to lose hope. Because outside the Middle-East we, the israelis and palestinians DO GET ALONG. I am saying this on behalf of my own and some other native israelis and palestinians living here. Just because we love our native Israel, doesn´t mean that we have to hate the palestinians. As for the UN and anti-israeli Europeans; they don´t care about the palestinians. They are against Israel for whatever reasons (in my opinion mainly jealousy, because israelis are stronger and better people than they are), but they don´t really care about palestinians. They use them as an excuse, just like many arab nations do.

well supporting israel is the wish of god who promises of blessing and godly rewards. we value your support and one day soon we will give you 10 times back. this fight will not last forever! god bless america.

"The Israelis and Israelis organizations are not doing much to help them." Oh yeah, whatever Israel and the Israeli people are doing is 100 % MORE then what ANY of the Arabic nations (or any other nation) does! What are you talking about? What planet are you from??! And you write "Right now they are depending on Organizations like Hamas and the "help" that they provide..." What "Help"?? And " . . a large part of them are good people. The evil ones are a minority, but unfortunately at the moment they have a lot of power in the Palestine." Well Shir, in case you are not aware, they have a lot of power because the Palestinian majority actually VOTED for the 'evil ones'. Now go and live your Eurabian life, but keep your naive opinions about your ex-country and her nemesis to yourself. (The Aussie is 100% right, by the way)

council name should be renamed to "Wipe Israel off the Map Council"

No other situation in the world is singled out -- not genocide in Sudan, not child slavery in China, nor the persecution of democracy dissidents in Egypt and elsewhere. The proposal eliminates the experts charged with reporting on violations by Cuba and Belarus, despite the latest reports of massive violations by both regimes. As for the experts on other countries -- on Burundi, Cambodia, North Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Burma, Somalia and Sudan -- all of these may soon be eliminated, as threatened by the council's majority of dictatorships and other Third World countries. Only 24% of the UN is democratic nations. It's time for the bloated UN to be completely disbanded, and replaced with a Council of Democratic nations.

He states facts and statistics. So where is the so called manipulation? I think you are the one that has been manipulated by your new Palestinian friends. Stop hating who you are, and start learning about your own history and background. Start to think about your own people. We in Israel should probably understand that it must be hard to be a proud Israeli Jew faced with all the anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic rhetoric in your new country of choice. But please, first know what you are talking about before you go about talking to us about things you obviously have no idea about.

You only give palestinians MONEY, medical help etc. you don´t try to communicate with them or get to know them. Giving money helps them physically but only interacting with them and getting to know them will change things in the long run. AND WHO ARE YOU TO CALL ME STUPID? I have an IQ 151, which is actually higher than that of 95% of the people living here. I am a math-oriented person and don´t perhaps express myself so well in foreign languages like english. That doesn´t make me dumb. Hamas is giving Palestinians money and social help, that makes them depend on it. And make them promises that they have no intention of fullfilling. The palestinians do not get that kind of support from the israelis, so they turn to terrorists. And by the way, a 100 people died in Gaza in one week. Many of those kids who did not contribute to the election results in any way. There will be more people like me, in Israel and outside Israel, who are perfectly capable to get along with palestinians, and treat them like any other human beings. Things will change, and there is nothing you hateful people can do about that.

With friends like you who needs enemies? A friendship is not about what one can get out of it, its about supporting each other in need. We have supported you, buy buying your goods, improving on them, your main sourse of intelligence in the ME, and all you can do is wail. What are YOU going to do for US?

You say that you're "tired of wasting American lives" in the Middle East and you don't care if Israel gets nuked. Well, you moron, I'll bet that you're ignorant of the fact that there are over 200,000 dual American-Israeli citizens living in Israel. So you're ready to write off so many of your own citizens, not to mention 7,000,000 others here who are the best friends that America has anyplace in the world.? It's a good thing most Americans are not a**holes like you are.