"...the nation that was decreed by the UN in 1948" - following a fair amount of terrorist activity by Jewish militants.

Nobody has clean hands.

One small bit of good news for the New Year in thta part olf the world - Israeli soldier held over shot Briton - "Israel has arrested a soldier in connection with a shooting that left a British peace activist brain-dead. Tom Hurndall, 22, was shot in the head while observing the Israeli army in Gaza in April, leaving him in a permanent vegetative state."