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In Which Country? Florida Journalist Asks A Few Interesting Questions
    
JUST WHO IS THE GREATEST INTERNATIONAL OUTLAW IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

MER - Washington - 2/14/98:

    It's not too often these days that you find an American journalist or politician speaking up about        the extraordinarily close and hypocritical U.S./Israeli alliance.

    Back in 1990 right-winger Pat Buchanan insisted that it was Israel and its "Amen Corner" (alias for   "lobby") that was the main source of pressure in Washington to go to war with Iraq.  Right as he was
then and now he was vilified then and since.

This provocative little column comes from the Orlando Sentinel newspaper in Florida.  Pass it along.  
 

A POP QUIZ ON THE MIDDLE EAST -- ANSWERS MAY SURPRISE YOU
Charley Reese of the Sentinel Staff
The Orlando Sentinel - 2/8

    Just so you can keep up with the perpetual crisis in the Middle East, I have 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 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.
                    
 
 

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