Middle East News Quiz
COHEN, RICHARD
Middle East News Quiz BY RICHARD COHEN Count 20 points for each correct answer. All persons scoring 80 or more qualify as (a) editorial staff members of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...The Palestinian resistance will set up a national authority on all the territory which is liberated, in order to continue on the way to the liberation of all Ihe land ol Palestine...
...Abuy lyyad, second in command to Arafat in Al Fatah, has been quoted as declaring: "Let us all die, lei us all be killed, let us all be assassinated, but we will not recognize Israel...
...All the other Arab stales—and the Palestine Arabs—still refuse to sit down with Israel and still deny its statehood...
...Q. Explain how the Lebanese civil war has confirmed the following statement by PLO Chief Yasir Aralat to the London Economist during the height of the fighting: "We have in the Lebanese experience a significant example that is close to the mullirelig-ious stale we are trying to ochieve...
...2. From the armistice that followed Israel's War of Independence (1949) until the fighting stopped after the Six Day War (1967), the West Bank territories were occupied by Jordan...
...Bonus question (10 extra points): If the Arabs started the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to win back territories lost in 1967, why did Ihey go to war in 1967...
...4. Israel is a democracy where every citizen over 18 may vote and hold public office...
...5a...
...or (b) ghostwriters for the PLO's spokesman at the UN, Zehadi Terzi...
...Q. Explain why Israel should agree to negotiate with the PLO...
...They worship in their own mosques and publish their own newspapers and political journals...
...Do not omil mentioning the mosl recent terrorist attack against Israel...
...that none of them permits either an opposition parry or an opposition press...
...Q. Explain why Israel has been denounced in the UN as "racist...
...Q. Explain why Arafat enjoys the reputation of being a "moderate" Palestinian leader...
...and that the few Jews who remain are veritable hostages, barred from leaving...
...3. More than 60,000 Moslems and Christians—all of them Arabs—have been slaughtered during the lighting in Lebanon brought on by the PLO attempt to seize control of that country...
...Q. Explain why the Arab League and the PLO waited until Israel won control of the West Bank to demand a Palestinian slate...
...Ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, called Israel "stubborn" and "intransigent...
...Yasir Arafat told a mass rally in Beirut: "We will continue our struggle, in spirit and in blood, until we succeed in establishing our secular, democratic state over Ihe entire territory of Palestine...
...5b...
...check your local newspaper lor details...
...All persons scoring 80 or more qualify as (a) editorial staff members of the Palestine Liberation Organization journal Al Folaslin (Beirut...
...Members of the Arab minority sit in the Israeli Parliament, are treated in Israel's hospitals and earn equal pay for equal work as members of Israel's Central Labor Federation...
...Finally, one Arab slate replied, and 16 months later a peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel...
...Arab citizens of Israel enjoy better wages, greater opportunities for education, lower infant mortolity and a higher standard of living than any Arabs in the world...
...Q. Explain why the former U.S...
...Ten bonus points will be awarded if your answer takes into account that all 21 member-states of the Arab League, except Lebanon, have a state religion—Islam...
...1. For 30 years Israel sought face-lo-(ace negotiations with her Arab neighbors that would lead toward a just and lasting peace...
Vol. 62 • October 1979 • No. 19
