ISRAEL IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE:

This is the only country where the unemployed strike.

This is the only country where the 'cross country' road ends before it reaches its half way.

This is the only country where 60 year olds still hate their TIRONUT commander, and where the MPs who chose the right to be silent don't shut their mouths.

This is the only country where the corporal's mother has the commander's telephone no.,

This is the only country that has a communication satellite, but nobody let you finish a sentence.

This is the only country where on Friday night when going to the parents, you sit on exactly the same chair you've been sitting on when you were five.

This is the only country where the guy with the open shirt and stain on it is the honorable minister and the guy beside him with the suit and tie is his driver.

This is the only country where at age 18 you leave home and at 24 you still live in it.

This is the only country where people who come to visit you for the first time ask you if it's ok to "take something from the fridge".

This is the only country where you can tell what the security situation is from the songs that are being played on the radio.

This is the only country where the rich are on the socialist left, the poor are on the capitalistic right and the bourgeois pay for everything.

This is the only country where it's no problem to get software that launches a space shuttle, but you have to wait for a week for your washing machine to be fixed.  And only here (if we're touching the subject) there's a time unit called "I'll come sometime between eleven and six".

This is the only country where on the first date you ask a girl where she served in the army.  And...

This is the only country where she either out-ranked you or was in a more militant job than you.

This is the only country where between the happiest day and the saddest day there are exactly 60 seconds (Memorial Day and Independence Day).

This is the only country where most people can't explain why they live in it but they have loads of reasons why they can't live elsewhere.

This is the only country where if you hate politicians, hate clerks, hate the situation, hate the taxes, hate the quality of service and hate the weather, it means that you STILL like (the country)