Yo Israel, Happy Independence Day!
I had a blast celebrating Israel's 60th independence day, down at Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv.
Sadly, the rest of the world didn't seem to care. The global mainstream media chose to focus instead on the arab "catastrophe" (nakba) without placing it in context - on the day Israel announced her independence and asked her neighbours to live in peace with her, the answer she received from the surrounding Arab states was a declaration of war with the stated aim of driving the Jews into the sea and destroying the fledgling state.
The reason it was a catastrophe for the arabs is because they didn't succeed.