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Hello,

My name is Michal, and I live in Israel. In Israel I study, enjoy with friends, do my obligations to school and friends, and just live the life anyone would live anywhere in the world.

I live here, and I hear everyday of people being sent in a bad state to hospitals in Sderot, because rockets have been fired on them, even after Israel tried to get peace and moved out of every single inch in Gaza, and tried to give the Palestinians there a good life. In return we were betrayed, and kept being slaughtered.

I'd like to know, how in you video "If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing", you can say such things about us? ISrael always tried to get peace, and is much beyond war. It's a country that values humans and lives of others, and tries to protect its citizens and give them a good life no matter what. Even in war- it doesn't do anything another country wouldn't have done for its citizens, and in technology it has done much for the world.

If the US helps fight against terror, and Israel works with it agains terror, why do you show such untrue horrible things? WHy Do you hate Israel so much, and Jews? What wrong have we ever done?

I hope you will answer, if it's not too much of a bother.
Hoping to recieve an answer,

Michal.
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Hi Michal,

Someone is giving you false information. Israel hasn't "tried to get peace."
For example, Hamas observed a truce for year and a half, Israel refused to accept it and continued to carry out assassinations, bombings and illegally cutoff funds.

It simply isn't accurate to claim that Israel "values humans and lives of others." Israel continues to commit atrocities. Israel continues its takeover, annexation and cantonization programs. Israel did NOT try "to give the Palestinians there a good life." Israel turned Gaza into "one big Prison." See B’Tselem's report about the continued strangulation of the Gaza.

"Although Israel withdrew from Gaza more than a year ago, its control over the lives of Palestinians there is in some ways even tighter than before, a new report by an Israeli human rights organisation says"
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/gaza-strangled.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6270331.stm
http://www.btselem.org/english/Gaza_Strip/Gaza_Status.asp

Whoever is telling you that "Israel always tried to get peace" is lying to you. They are not being honest about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. The 9th commandment says, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

By the way, the video you refereed to is actually an edited version of a promo for a film by http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

-Tom