Ali Khamenei
Political Leader
"Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated."
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Middle East
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Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China."
Ali Khamenei
Political Leader
"[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state."
Prince Charles
Royalty
"Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ."
King Hussein I
King
"It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East."
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"In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice . . . Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin."
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"Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?"
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"Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle."
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"To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns."
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"It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria."
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"Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution."
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"God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa."
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"Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength."
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"We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing."
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"It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar."
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"Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty."
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"I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel."
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"Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so."
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"The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers."
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"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."
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"There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world.""
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"Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago."
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"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries."
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"No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East."
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"The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets."
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