Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 17:08:29 ‑0500
From: "Columbus C. Marcum" <[email protected]>
Organization: Christian Israel Church
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Subject: [ID‑L] Florida Journalist Asks A Few Interesting Questions
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> >
> > JUST WHO IS THE GREATEST INTERNATIONAL OUTLAW
> > IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
> >
> > MER ‑ Washington ‑ 2/14/98:
> > It's not too often these days that you find an
> > American journalist or politician speaking up about
> > the extraordinarily close and hypocritical U.S./
> > Israeli alliance.
> > Back in 1990 right‑winger Pat Buchanan insisted
> > that it was Israel and its "Amen Corner" (alias for
> > "lobby") that was the main source of pressure in
> > Washington to go to war with Iraq. Right as he was
> > then and now he was vilified then and since.
> > This provocative little column comes from the
> > Orlando Sentinel newspaper in Florida. Pass it along.
> > Note: The previous item today was sent in error,
> > our apologies.
> >
> >
> > A POP QUIZ ON THE MIDDLE EAST ‑‑ ANSWERS MAY SURPRISE YOU
> > Charley Reese of the Sentinel Staff
> > The Orlando Sentinel ‑ 2/8
> >
> >Just so you can keep up with the perpetual crisis in the Middle East,
> >I have a little quiz for you.
> >
> >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 terri‑
> > tory 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 inter‑
> > national 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 threatening to bomb because
> > "U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
> >A: Iraq.
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Some still dare to write the truth..... Carl Marcum