Quotes About Middle East

The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

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.

If Kushner could not find a Middle East peace plan, "nobody can," Trump said. Kushner didn't.

PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal's, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly hijacked planes full of fuel into buildings. Plain and simple, they're cowards. They won't confront anyone on a one-to-one basis. They don't have the savvy or the courage to do in-your-face operations.

Trump's ambitions and motivations notwithstanding, his legacy in the Middle East might best be characterized as tactical maneuvers and strategic incoherence. 3 Trump's actions and tweets left the Middle East in worse shape than what he had inherited, as his policy unorthodoxy created a great deal of uncertainty.

Palestinian guerrillas, in a bold and coordinated action, created this newest crisis Sunday, and in doing so they accomplished what they set out to do: they thrust back into the world's attention a problem diplomats have tended to shunt aside in hesitant steps towards Middle East peace.

Iran can exist without Hamas, but Hamas can't exist without Iran.

I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.

Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is 'no.'

The interference of Iran affects us all.

We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

Israel is frightening. Its behaviour is irresponsible.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

I'm for Israel's right to exist.

However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.

Israel can never feel that it is in a safe place.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Israel has a right to defend itself.