Israel and Middle East

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Are The People Blind?


Questions and Answers - Session I

Q. Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?

A. Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspection?

A. Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East seized sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions?

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 it confiscated?

A. Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 UN Security Council Resolutions and has been protected by U.S vetoes?

A. Israel

Q. Which country confiscated almost 750,000 acres of land from the 1.5 million acres comprising the West Bank & Gaza Strip?

A. Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East has killed 435 Palestinian school children?

A. Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East has demolished 7000 homes?

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 had a high ranking United Nations Diplomat assassinated?

A. Israel

Q. Which country on this planet has the second most powerful lobby force in the United States, according to a recent Fortune Magazine survey of Washington insiders?

A. Israel

Q. Which country in the Middle East has the authorities forcefully preventing Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homeland against the UN Security Council resolution 194?

A. Israel

Q. Which country is responsible in the Middle East to deprive 90,000 Palestinian students from attending school?

A. Israel

Q. Which country uprooted over 112,000 olive trees in Palestinian land?

A. Israel

Q. Which country hit 165 ambulances, killed 4 ambulance drivers and seriously injured 122?

A. Israel

Q. Which country killed 1251 and injured 18,507 people by the security forces and settlers?

A. Israel

Q. Which country receives over $5 Billion aid each year from the U.S, more than the whole of Africa?

A. Israel

Q. Which country is a threat to the world peace and should be bombed and ruined for teaching a lesson?

A. Iraq


Questions and Answers - Session II

Q. What do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people?

A. A terrorist.

Q. What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent people?

A. A brave American pilot.

Q. What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land?

A. A terrorist attack.

Q. What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?

A. Self-defense.

Q. What do you call it when someone gives money to a government official in return for favors?

A. Bribery.

Q. What do you call it when a large corporation gives money to a government official in return for favors?

A. A campaign contribution.

Q. What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens?

A. A dictatorship.

Q. What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings?

A. A democracy.

Q. What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial?

A. Lynching.

Q. What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial?

A. Operation Enduring Freedom.

Q. What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people?

A. A weapon of mass destruction.

Q. What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children?

A. Sanctions.

Q. What do you call an army that will fight for whoever pays the most money?

A. Mercenaries.

Q. What do you call an army in Afghanistan that will fight for whoever pays the most money?

A. The Northern Alliance (or United Front).

Q. What do you call an attack on the Pentagon, a command and control center in the US?

A. A cowardly attack on American freedom and democracy.

Q. What do you call the destruction of an Afghan village by US bombs?

A. An attack on a Taliban command and control center.

Q. What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US?

A. An atrocity.

Q. What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war?

A. A mistake.

Q. What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people?

A. Greed and selfishness.

Q. What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries?

A. Globalization.

Q. What do you call a foreign oppressor in the last century that controlled the economical and social life of a country?

A. A colonialist power.

Q. What do you call a foreign oppressor in this century that controls the economical and social life of a country?

A. The International Monetary Fund.

Q. What do you call it when people are slaughtered?

A. A massacre.

Q. What do you call it when 100.000 to 200.000 Iraqi's are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)?

A. The Gulf War.

Q. What do you call the extermination of a people?

A. Genocide.

Q. What do you call the extermination of native Americans in the US?

A. A glorious episode in American history.

Q. What do you call a US president who says, "Read my lips - no new taxes", and later breaks his promise?

A. George Bush.

Q. What do you call a US president who says, "No new taxes - over my dead body", and later ...?

A. George W. Bush.

Q. What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd and tells stories?

A. An entertainer.

Q. What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd at the Pentagon and tells stories?

A. Donald Rumsfeld.

Q. What do you call a television station that broadcasts only the government's views?

A. A propaganda station.

Q. What do you call the BBC when the World News consists solely of half an hour of a Pentagon briefing?

A. Fair and impartial.

Q. What do you call the 2002 presidential election in Zimbabwe where there are serious irregularities?

A. A flawed election.

Q. What do you call the 2000 presidential election in the US where there are serious irregularities?

A. A victory for democracy!

Q. What do you call someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor?

A. Robin Hood.

Q. What do you call someone who steals from the poor and gives to the rich?

A. Robbing Bush


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