On May 8th, Israel celebrated its 60th birthday with the traditional picnics and chants of "Death to Arabs."In 1948, the United Nations voted to create the new nation of Israel. After several million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, everyone felt sorry for them so they got a new country, displacing the Palestinians. Several wars followed between the surrounding Arab nations and Israel, including the Six Days War and many other conflicts.
Nowadays, the region is still in turmoil, and the Arabs still want to rid the Middle East of those Jews. The conflict is in no way one-sided. The Jews hate the Arabs just as much and on the independence day, violence erupted because the Jews were shouting 'Death to Arabs'. The Israeli Arabs didn't like that saying very much and responded with chants of 'Palestine'. The march soon degenerated into the violence that everyone has come to associate with the Middle East.
Also marring the festivities of Israel's 60th birthday was a wayward paratrooper. The Israeli Army Paratrooper was supposed to land on a beach as part of the festivities, but he didn't end up on the beach. This 'professional' soldier somehow managed to land in a crowd of bystanders, injuring himself and knocking the people over like bowling pins. Several of the people were seriously injured. I hope that paratrooper doesn't get a Purple Heart. I wouldn't want a man falling from the sky on top of me. That doesn't sound like the best way to spend a holiday.
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