Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south. In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State.
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Is this data about COVID Vaccination breakthrough infections from the Israeli government?
I've been seeing this infographic circulating lately in private WhatsApp groups, and also on Twitter 1, 2. It has also been retweeted by Ivory Hecker who has 100k twitter followers and 173k Instagram followers
The infographic goes under the title…
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Did India plan to get Pakistan's nuclear facility destroyed by Israel in the mid-'80s?
A 2010 article by Shahid R. Siddiqi in Dawn (a major Pakistani English newspaper) states:
After successfully destroying the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981,
Israelis planned a similar attack on Pakistan’s nuclear facilities at
Kahuta in collusion…
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Did Downer claim Israel told him to spy on Papadopoulos?
Former Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos just tweeted this:
Alexander Downer has made a bizarre, and unfounded, claim and perpetuated a conspiracy theory that the Israelis were the ones who told him to spy on me in London. I…
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Do more Israelis die from peanut allergies than Palestinian conflict?
In his song 'Terrorist' the artist Lowkey asserts:
It seems nuts, how could there be such agony?
When more Israelis die from peanut allergies
In the context of the song, he seems to be claiming that more Israelis die as a result of peanut…
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Were 700000 Arab Palestinians forced out of their homes by Zionists?
Foreign policy says:
In the course of the war that ensued, Israel implemented a policy of
ethnic cleansing. 700,000 Arab Palestinians were either forced from
their homes or fled out of fear of further massacres,
Is this true? Is the number…
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Did Moshe Feiglin call for concentration camps?
The Daily Mail claims that Moshe Feiglin, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, called for concentration camps in Gaza. Israeli official calls for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all…
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Does "Israel" mean "Exiled for their sins"?
Joseph Davidovits claims that the word "iisii-r-iar", "ysrỉar" or however you want to transcribe it, that appears on the Merneptah Stele is an Egyptian phrase meaning "those who are exiled for their sins".
Now, this word is usually assumed mean…
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Does Israel have a contracted minimum quota of people they must inject with Pfizer vaccines?
From Outcry to the world, from Israel!!! (NL+ENG subtitles) (transcript from The Current Situation in Israel as Told by Ilana Rachel Daniel)
“There is a contract. There is an actual physical contract between Pfizer and our government. We’ve seen…
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Did the Nazi SS set up training camps to assist Jews travelling to Israel?
Ken Livingstone is a former MP and London mayor in the UK, suspended from the Labour party for "bringing the party into disrepute" after making various historical claims about "real collaboration" between Zionists and Nazi.
The Guardian has a video…
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Did China receive blue prints of the IAI Lavi jet from Israel?
On the Internet, it is frequently found that the Chinese J-10 fighter jet evolved from the Israeli IAI Lavi project in that either China obtained the blueprints or received direct technical assistance from Israel regarding this project.
Why China…
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Is Israel official story of the issue were correct?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/01/israel-rejects-un-and-eu-calls-for-inquiry-into-gaza-bloodshed
The official story is that there is a violent riot. And that the snipper acts appropiately.
However, Israel refuses independent…
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Did Theodor Herzl adhere to Spinozism?
The following are found among a list of Theodor Herzl quotes on the Web site of the World Zionist Organisation:
When I say God I do not mean to offend the freethinkers. For my part
they can say World Spirit or any other term in place of this…
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Did Ariel Sharon say that the Jewish people control America?
Kevin Barrett claims:
I remember it like it happened yesterday.
It was early October, 2001. I was driving through the Shorewood
neighborhood of Madison, Wisconsin, listening to BBC News on WORT
listener-sponsored community radio.
The BBC…
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Has the US given more aid to the average Israeli citizen than the average American citizen?
From an article entitled, "U.S. Aid to Israel: What U.S. Taxpayer Should Know", by the Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs,
Since 1949 the U.S. has given Israel a total of $83.205 billion. The interest costs borne by U.S. tax payers on…
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Did Benjamin Netanyahu say this about Christian Zionists?
The following quote is attributed to Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel.
It appears in inspiringquotes.us.
It was shared by a couple of Facebook users, and the quote or part of the quote appears in many neo-Nazi sites such as…
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