Why We're Not Celebrating Israel's Anniversary
Seymour Alexander and others -- The Guardian (Britain)
Letters: We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary | World news | The Guardian

... We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations.