Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a special greeting on Wednesday, in honor of Israel’s 64th Independence Day.



“Israel’s Independence Day is a time for us to consider what makes Israel truly unique,” said Netanyahu. “Israel is unique in restoring sovereignty and the capacity for self-defense to a people that had been stateless and powerless for 2,000 years.

“Israel is unique in ingathering to an ancestral homeland an exiled people who had been scattered around the globe,” he added. “Israel is unique in having become a global technological power despite the fact that we face threats faced by no other nation on earth.

“Israel is unique in the Middle East for having a vibrant, liberal democracy, where women are equal, minorities are free and where all are subjects to the rule of law.

“But Israel is unique in one other important way,” stressed Netanyahu. “We are unique in having such passionate friends, Jews and non-Jews alike, for whom the well-being, security and future of our country is so important.

“This passionate support, along with Israel’s strong army, free economy and dynamic society is the pillar of our national strength,” he said, “and this Independence Day I want to thank the tens of millions of friends of Israel around the world for their unwavering support for the one and only Jewish State.” (IsraelNationalNews © 2012 04/25/12)