Thank you. This was quite enlightening.

At 08:06 PM 2/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>>A POP QUIZ ON THE MIDDLE EAST -- ANSWERS MAY SURPRISE YOU
>>            Charley Reese of the Sentinel Staff
>>         The Orlando Sentinel, Sunday Feb. 8, 1998
>>
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>>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 territories
>>   of other nations by military force and continues to occupy them 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: Which of America's allies in the Middle East has for years sent
>>   assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a
>>   practise 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: Which country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its
>>   soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
>>A: Israel.
>>
>>Q: Which 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: Which 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: Which 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 of America threatening to bomb
>>   because "U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
>>A: Iraq.
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