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Pop Quiz on the Middle East
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 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 bombing for years because "U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
A: Iraq.
(By Charley Reese of the Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, Feb 8 1998)
If there is justice in this world, Israel would have been held to the same standards as every other nation and US administration would have bombed Tel Aviv a long time ago. But what do you know…
Shooting the messengers (Le Monde diplomatique)- One reason that the US government, politicians and people don't have a clear idea of the situation in Israel/Palestine is that any criticism or complaint about Israel, no matter how well-researched and moderate, is swiftly attacked by lobbies in the US as being anti-semitic.
The New York Post editorial on 5 January 2007 read: "How did this man ever become president of the United States?" Readers might have thought this was a crack about President George Bush in a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch. But the editorial went on: "He's gone from failed president to friend of leftwing tyrants and global scold of anything that represents America's legitimate interests"; he wanted to "demonise Israel" and had secretly given "PR and political advice to Yasser Arafat". The Post was damning not Bush, but Jimmy Carter, and it said Democrats should "cut all their ties" to him for "when he flatly condones mass murder, he goes beyond the pale"…
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Hey, I got everyone correct!
It is also true that Israel attacked a US war ship in international waters in 1967 and the United States did nothing but try to cover it up.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
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As a Swede I think immediately of Folke Bernadotte, said UN mediator whose murder by Israeil operatives was sanctioned by Israel's future prime minister, and Tove Johansson, a young voluntary worker in the region who fell victim to arbitrary Israeli use of violence.
Make no mistake, my allegiances in this troubled region are not something I'll toss around carelessly because it would be unethical to discuss people's rights and responsibilities without sound knowledge and reason. But I recognize that Israel get away with things that are used as arguments for punishment when muslim/arab countries perpetrate them.
Haitham…. another BRILLIANT post…. Another one that I 'borrowed my blog…. with thanks!
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/09/middle-east-iq-test.html
What country thinks it is pure?
Without prejudice?
Israel!
Q: what country claims that the middle easterns are the terrorists?
not hard to guess
A: isreal!
and thats sort of funny cuzz there sayin the middle east are the terrorists when there the only country that comenses terror against themselves ! wow isreal IS retarded