Mideast Politics Quotes

Assad is a bad guy, but you may very well end up with worse than Assad.

Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

Syria is a problem, but Iran is a bigger problem.

Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they're losing out to the Islamists, who've built protest movements the old-fashioned way. And in Moscow, the Mink revolutionaries, who are united by Live-Journal but not much else, were easy for Putin to outmaneuver.

There is no reason that Iraq should be at war with Israel.