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Pop Quiz on the Middle East
by Charlie Reese
(Published on Sunday, February 8, 1998 in the Orlando Sentinel. Yes, that is correct, 1998!)
Question 1: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel.
Q 2: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
A: Israel.
Q 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: In which country in the Middle East have high ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
A: Israel.
Q 7: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
A: Israel.
Q 8: 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 9: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
A: Israel.
Q 10: In what country in the Middle East was a high ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
A: Israel.
Q 11: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
A: Israel.
Q 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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 16: 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 17: What country is the United States threatening to bomb because “U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?”
A: IRAQ
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