The country with the second largest number, Canada, had just 1,396 locations. Only two other countries had more than one thousand Starbucks stores at this time, China and Japan. Surprisingly, the city with the largest number of Starbucks stores worldwide was found in none of the aforementioned countries.
July 16, 2004. When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator in May 2004 that Iraq was invaded to secure Israel, and that everybody in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable. Ernest Fritz Hollings, a Democrat who has represented his state in the US Senate since 1966, is now serving his final term in Washington.
The nature of the conflict has shifted over the years from the large scale regional ArabâIsraeli conflict to a more local IsraeliâPalestinian conflict, as large-scale hostilities mostly ended with the cease-fire agreements that followed the 1973 Yom Kippur War.srael and Iraq have been implacable foes since 1948. Iraq sent its troops to participate in the 1948 ArabâIsraeli War, and later backed Egypt and Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.