Quiz on Middle East

This pop quiz on the Middle East (answers may surprise you) was located in the Orlando Sentinel, February 8, 1998, by one of our members.

Question: Which country 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.

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East to have the United Nations vote unanimously (150 to 1) against it, due to its poor record on human rights?

A: Israel

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East (and the world) that has institutionalized torture openly, as approved by its Supreme Court ?

A: Israel

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East to have transformed a murderer who executed 39 innocent victims who were praying in their house of worship, into a cult hero, whose tomb many visit every day.

A: Israel

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East which has taken armaments supplied and designed by the U.S. and sold them, to Iran and Red China, despite having vowed that they would not do so ?

A: Israel

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East which has taken advantage of an impending American military action to preserve freedom (Hungary, 1956) to attack a neighbor and seize its territory?

A: Israel

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East that has received more than the equivalent of two complete Marshall Plans from the United States and Germany and spends approximately one third of its budget on military activities used to attack its neighbors (despite maintaining a constant 30% deficit) ?

A: Israel

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East which openly subsidizes U.S. political campaigns of U.S. candidates, to promote its own interests in the United States? 

A: Israel 

Q: Which is the only country in the Middle East which has prohibited the practice of other than the state religion ? 

A: Israel

Q: Which Middle East country has played havoc with the ecology of a fragile environment, re-routing the waters of the River Jordan with missiles, to alter its flow? 

A: Israel

Q: Which Middle East country has begun every war it has been engaged in, according to speeches by its past prime ministers?

A: Israel

Q: Which Middle East country has elected several confessed murderers - thorough claiming to have acted in the "national interest" - as prime ministers?

A: Israel