A POP QUIZ ON THE MIDDLE EAST - ANSWERS MAY
> SURPRISE YOU

> >Just so you can keep up with the perpetual crisis
> in the Middle East,
> >Here is 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 terri-tory 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
> >inter-national 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
> con-fiscated?
> >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.
> >