Charley Reese is a Rightist columnist. M.P.
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>Published on Sunday, February 8, 1998 in the Orlando Sentinel
>Pop Quiz on the Middle East
>by Charlie Reese
>
>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 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
>