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POP QUIZ ON THE MIDDLE EAST-ANSWERS MAY SURPRISE YOU
By Charley Reese
The Orlando Sentinel - Sunday, February 8, 1998
Just so you can keep up with the perpetual crisis in
the Middle East, I have a little quiz for you.
Question: Which
country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which
country in the Middle East refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
and bars international
inspections?
A: Israel.
Q: Which
country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by
military force and continues to
occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
A: Israel.
Q: Which
country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of
another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
A: Israel.
Q: What
American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other
countries to kill its political enemies (a
practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
A: Israel.
Q: In which
country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly
that unarmed prisoners of
war were executed?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have
acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to
return to their homes, farms and businesses?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land,
bank accounts and businesses
it confiscated?
A: Israel.
Q: In what
country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat
assassinated?
A: Israel.
Q: In what
country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a
high-ranking UN diplomat become Prime Minister?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and
attacked a U.S. ship in
international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified
documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make
him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American President grant
Pollard a full pardon?
A: Israel.
Q: What
country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States,
according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
A: Israel.
Q: Which
country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council
resolutions and has been
protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
A: Israel.
Q: What country is the United States bombing for years because "UN Security
Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
A: Iraq.
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