Kol hakavod to Armond Schiff, who takes us on this virtual tour
(illustrated by yours truly):
I have lived in Israel for many years, and I would be delighted to take you on a little virtual tour of our country.Let me first give you a couple of minor points. Israel occupies 0.1% of the landmass of the Middle East and it is the only Jewish state, not only in this region, but in the world, and surrounded by 22 Arab states.
Let us begin your virtual tour!!
You have already been through immigration at Tel Aviv Airport with your boyfriend, whom we shall call Ken.
You will have filled out a visitors form. This form will not ask you, as it will in many of the countries that surround us, what is your religion, and it will certainly not ask you, as they do in Saudi Arabia, for a "certificate of religion".
The day is Sunday! You will want to attend a church service. No problem in the Apartheid State of Israel. We tolerate, and freely allow, worship for all religions.
This is more than can be said for all of the surrounding 22 Arab nations. In fact many of them would not even have a single church, let alone a synagogue.
After a lovely service you and Ken would head for a leisurely lunch- maybe at one of the lovely beachfront restaurants in Tel Aviv.
You would most likely have returned to your hotel and put on a very casual outfit, as befitting the very hot Israeli summers. This could be a pair of shorts and a tight fitting skimpy t-shirt.
No problem in the Apartheid state of Israel. In Israel we allow freedom of dress, especially for women, who are not made to wear bulky long robes, a veil to cover their face, and, wouldn't it be a pity if you had to c over that lovely coiffed hairdo, as you would probably have to in the surrounding 22 Arab states.
During lunch Ken could gaze lovingly into your heavily-painted eyes, complete with a good application of black mascara. He would be free to lean across and kiss your lips-finely painted with lip liner, 2 shades of burgundy lipstick and gloss.
People would probably think you were in love, especially as Ken has proudly displayed a good wine on the table. Public displays of affection and consuming alcohol in the Apartheid state of Israel is nothing unusual, and its not even scorned upon.
That's more than can be said for most of the surrounding 22 Arab states, where your glossy lips would be considered whorish and alcohol is forbidden.
... Ken, being a little flirtatious, pinched one of the young waitresses, while you went to reapply your lipstick.
It was harmless and luckily for the young girl in the Apartheid State of Israel, her father and 6 brothers will not take her to the family pool in the evening and drown her, or slit her throat-as they would in the surrounding 22 Arab states.
After lunch you and Ken drive around. You are even allowed to drive. It is not forbidden in Israel.

You stumble across a kindergarten.
The children are running around and enjoying themselves.
They are not made to sit for hours reciting by rote, pages from religious books. Their games are in the sand pit or on the swings. They are not infested with hate or told the only honor to their lives will be in death.
In the Apartheid state of Israel we rejoice in life and living.
We do not promote murder and violence by brainwashing our children with hatred, as they do in the surrounding 22 Arab states.
By the end of the day you and Ken come across a political rally. Many thousands have turned up.
In the Apartheid State of Israel all the citizens, men, women, Jew, Arab and Christian are free to vote. We are allowed to openly criticize the government and our media, including the T. V. and newspapers, offer, without prejudice, a choice of opinions.
Every person has the right to openly agree with, or condemn, the government.
This can certainly not be said for any of the surrounding 22 Arab states- ruled as they are by oppressive dictators, where any dissent is met with dire consequences.
Of course, most of the 22 surrounding Arab countries can't offer you a good old-fashioned homicide (suicide) bombing as a tourist attraction.
This can only happen in the apartheid state of Israel, surrounded as we are, by so many hostile countries, all determined, as you are to wipe us of the face of the earth.
Where else can you get on a crowded bus, often packed with children, and come face to face with some poor plighted Palestinian ghoul who thinks life isn't very jolly, having been fed and brainwashed by evil organizations like Hamas to believe that the only way forward is to murder innocent people.
This dehumanized creature will have been fed on a 24/7 diet of lies and hate incitement; he will have been coaxed with the reward of 72 virgins waiting for him in Paradise.
His demonic mother will be dancing in the street waving her $10,000 check.
While Israelis are scraping their dead children off the sidewalks, the Palestinians will be lighting fireworks,
... and dancing in the street to honor this mass murderer as a hero- often to their children who are being systematically nurtured to be the next generation of mass murderers.
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I have lived in Israel for many years, and I would be delighted to take you on a little virtual tour of our country.Let me first give you a couple of minor points. Israel occupies 0.1% of the landmass of the Middle East and it is the only Jewish state, not only in this region, but in the world, and surrounded by 22 Arab states.
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