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       Brigadier
      General Says Israel is the problem not Iraq 
       
      Questions and Answers about Iraq and Israel 
       
      by James J. David a retired Brigadier General 
      Jan 7, 2003 
       
      (James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S.Army's
      Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course,
      National Defense University, Washington, DC. He served as a Company
      Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in
      1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and
      around the Middle East from 1967-1969.) 
       
      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? 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international
      borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval
      gunfire? 
      Answer: 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)? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers
      admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who
      have acknowledged executing prisoners of war? 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people
      whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations
      diplomat assassinated? 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility
      in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international
      waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors? 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q. What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to
      its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to
      extradite them once in their custody? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and
      a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in
      their Mosque. 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee
      Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially
      children? 
      Answer: 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? 
      Answer: Israel. 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all
      U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and
      then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections
      of the U.S.? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely insults the American people
      by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress and
      lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign
      aid? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his
      staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We
      control America?" 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International for
      demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic
      cleansing. 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of
      mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a
      highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian
      children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles,
      bulldozers, or tanks? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to
      halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more
      than 270 new settlements since the signing? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q. Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100
      political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing
      hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q.. Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva
      Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages,
      and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing
      entire villages while people are still in their homes? 
      Answer: Israel 
       
      Q: What country in the Middle East is the United States threatening to
      attack because of fear that it may be a threat to us and to our allies? 
      Answer:
      Iraq  |