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I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.
In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. And it's a relationship we should be strengthening, not weakening.
President Trump has always said that he does not want war, that he seeks peace with Iran, peace in the Middle East.
I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.
In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'
The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.
At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it's only Israel.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.
In the Middle East, I can't walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I'm totally fine going out.
The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.
If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.
Saying you don't want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn't make you an isolationist; it makes you wise.
If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly.
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.
I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
I really wanted to take 'Dilbar' to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.
I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.
Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.
The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.
I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.
TSG is competing with Middle East, East Asia and Europe in offering prices that are either lower or at par with these markets.
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.