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