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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.
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>Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear
>   non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
>A: Israel.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military
>   officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were
>   executed?
>A: Israel.
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>Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its
>   soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
>A: Israel.
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>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.
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>Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation
>   to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
>A: Israel.
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>Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United
>   Nations diplomat assassinated?
>A: Israel.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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