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U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of the name: Abbr.
Argggg. I can’t even do crossword puzzles without misinformation and propaganda.
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Wednesday, 7/18, 34 Down:
U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of the name: Abbr.
Argggg. I can’t even do crossword puzzles without misinformation and propaganda.
I take it LUN, for Lusaka, Zambia, didn’t fit? #geek
Zambia!
Now that is diabolical. Since the US officially recognizes Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel it can’t be that nation.
You’re shitting me.
I’m reminded of the time I was trying to track down some Palestinian village that had been the location of an airstrip in World War Two.
I finally found it. Google gave the Biblical Hebrew name of the site, along with the comment that it had been ‘liberated’ in 1948.
Somehow, I doubt if the residents really enjoyed ‘liberation day’ all that much.
But then Israel isn’t an ally: This is what Ray McGovern had to say about this (19 November 2009):
… what is generally called “our ally”, the state of Israel. And you probably have heard me say this before, and people are shocked that I would say it, that Israel is not our ally. Go to your dictionary and look up “ally”; ally is someone with whom you have a mutual defense treaty. There is none with Israel, and there is a reason why there is none with Israel. Do you know what the reason is? The Israelis were broached on this after the 1967 war; we said “maybe it would help if we formed an alliance, and then if the Arabs wanted to attack you they would know that they would be attacking us as well”. The Israelis said: well, that is very nice of you, but thanks, but no thanks. Why do you suppose? The reason why is because international treaties require internationally recognized boundaries; the Israelis were not interested in giving up the West Bank… treaties also bind each party to let the other know if they are going to attack another country, and Israel didn’t want to be bound by that either. […] Next time you hear Ileana Ros-Lehtinen or Howard Berman or Steny Hoyer say that we have to automatically protect Israel, our ally, ask them how it is that Israel is our ally any more than Egypt or Syria or even Iran as our ally. None of them are because we have no defense treaty with them.