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Pop Quiz on the Middle East (Revised)
by James J. David - Jan 7, 2003
The original Middle East Pop Quiz was published by Charley Reese back
on February 8, 1998. Since then, there have been many additions to the
quiz which I have added on this Labor Day week-end. With many thanks to
Charley Reese and hoping he makes a full recovery from his recent
illness, I present the updated version.
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?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the
international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and
artillery and naval gunfire?
Answer: 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)?
Answer: Israel.
Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military
officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
Answer: Israel.
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who
have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Israel.
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people
whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
Answer: Israel.
Q: In what country in the MiddleEast was a high-ranking United Nations
diplomat assassinated?
Answer: Israel.
Q: In what country in the Middle East did theman who ordered the
assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
Answer: Israel.
Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic
facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in
international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?
Answer: 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?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Israel.
Q. What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to
its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to
extradite them once in their custody?
Answer: Israel
Q. What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine
and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinains while they
prayed in their Mosque.
Answer: 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?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee
Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and
especially children?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-thind of all
U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world?
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and
then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the
objections of the U.S.
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely insults the American
people by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress
and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce
foreign aid?
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to
his staff not to worry about what the United States says because " We
control America?"
Answer: Israel
Q. What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International
for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of
ethnic cleansing.
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of
mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a
highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian
children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehichles,
bulldozers, or tanks?
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to
halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built
more than 270 new settlements since the signing?
Answer: Israel
Q. Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100
political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing
hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
Answer: Israel
Q.. Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva
Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages,
and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing
entire villages while people are still in their homes?
Answer: Israel
Q: What country in the Middle East is the United States threatening to
attack because of fear that it may be a threat to us and to our allies?
Answer: Iraq
(James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the
U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National
Security Course, National Defense University, Washington DC. He served
as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic
of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army
active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.) | |  | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
