Quotes About Middle East

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

I am the Israeli leader who met most with Arafat.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The capital of Israel is Jerusalem, no matter what.

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

Let me tell you something about Moses," she would say, not with total originality, and be quoted in The New York Times. "He took us forty years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

The most costly and protracted Middle East conflict of this era, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–8, had nothing to do with the Cold War, as cause or effect.

Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.

When Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen erupted in March 2015, there was widespread Saudi popular support for it - including by me.

Whether it is Iraq, whether it is Yemen, whether it is Lebanon, whether it is Syria, I mean North Africa, you could go through the list of countries where Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism uses these proxies... to foment chaos in the Middle East.

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me.

I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived there for three years and I got to explore Oman, as well as many places around there.

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.