President Bush with Saudi King Abdullah
1. Which country allows its residents religious freedom?
- Saudi Arabia
- Israel
2. Which country is explicitly racist in its immigration and employment policies?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
3. Which country practices a form of religious apartheid in which certain places are off-limits to any but a favored group?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
4. Which country is a democracy?
- Saudi Arabia
- Israel
5. Which country is a monarchy in which a 6000-member royal family holds most of the wealth?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
6. Which country does not permit women to drive, and sentences rape victims to be whipped for the crime of being alone with an unrelated male?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
7. What was the destination of nine charter flights which left the US as soon as airspace was reopened after 9/11?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
8. What country colluded with Egypt and Syria prior to the Yom Kippur war to use oil as a weapon, declared an oil embargo on the US during that war which caused severe shortages of gasoline and heating oil, and led OPEC to raise prices in a maneuver which quadrupled the price of oil in the world within a year?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
9. What country is the major beneficiary of the present run-up in the price of oil?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
10. Which country operates a quiet network of agents made up of highly influential former officials — including former Presidents — in the US, paid either directly for services of various kinds or by way of funding for foundations and pet projects?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
11. To which country do present US officials defer in hopes of obtaining a well-paid post-retirement job?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
12. Which country’s much-discussed lobby is made up mostly of businessmen who meet at fancy hotels, has less real influence than everybody thinks, and recently had two staffers framed by the FBI for “espionage”?
- Saudi Arabia
- Israel
12. Which country distributes petro-funds around the world to institutions teaching an extremist form of Sunni Islam, institutions which teach the necessity of jihad against Shiite Muslims, Christians, Jews, Israel, and the West?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
13. In what country are huge amounts of money collected, ostensibly for ‘charity’, which go directly to Hamas and other terrorist groups?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
14. What country held a telethon in 2005 to raise funds for the Palestinian intifada?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
15. Which country was the first to be allowed to buy the advanced F15E jets?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
16. After a huge bomb killed 19 US servicemen and injured scores more at the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dharan in 1996, what country was criticized by the US justice department for withholding evidence and hindering the investigation into the bombing?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
17. When the Saudi network went head-to-head with the pro-Israel lobby in 1981 over the proposed sale of the advanced AWACS system to Saudi Arabia, who won?
- The pro-Israel lobby
- The Saudi network
18. To defend Kuwait and what other country did the US go to war in 1991?
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
19. When Saddam Hussein fired scud missiles at both Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf war, which country was forbidden by the US to defend herself to avoid insulting the other?
- Saudi Arabia
- Israel
20. During the recent Annapolis conference, which country’s delegates were made to enter through a service entrance in order to avoid insulting those of the other?
- Saudi Arabia
- Israel
Hint: all correct answers are even numbers. But you knew that.
Extra credit essay:
Explain US Mideast policy since the 1960’s in terms of the influence of the Saudi network on a series of Presidents and other officials, especially Fred Dutton, James A. Baker, Jimmy Carter, J. W. Fulbright, G. H. W. Bush and G. W. Bush, etc.
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