A Pop Quiz on the Middle East by Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel
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 U.N. 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 threatening to bomb because “U.N.
Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?”
A: Iraq