Quotes by Middle East I don't think the Middle East could afford another war. Abdallah II middle-eastwarthinking I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while. Abdallah II middle-eastexpertsthinking Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. Adam Michnik middle-eastisraelcountry One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music. Al-Waleed bin Talal companymiddle-eastforce I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause. Al-Waleed bin Talal middle-eastgovernmentbelieve You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. Alexander Haig middle-eastfrustrationlooks Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated. Ali Khamenei entitymiddle-eastisrael [There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state. Ali Khamenei unrestmiddle-eastdestruction What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may well happen, and I say this to my Palestinian friends, that the Palestinians have in a certain way missed their hour. They had their moment when the world's public opinion was behind them, and a considerable part of the Israeli public was willing to compromise with them. Amos Oz public-opinionmiddle-eastworld The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions. Andre Vltchek middle-easthistoricaltrying I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself. Andrew Sullivan middle-eastiraqspace I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. Andy Serkis middle-eastdoneage It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. Aneurin Bevan auntmiddle-eastworld 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. Angelina Jolie middle-easttownshome It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing. Anna Quindlen middle-eastmissingmen The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs. Annia Ciezadlo kabulmiddle-eaststories One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society. Arnold Beichman scripturemiddle-eastblock I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East. Arundhati Roy middle-eastwarpeople We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even though we have different interests, to align them. That alignment has become more and more difficult under Putin. You see that in Ukraine, you see it in the Middle East. To an extent where he actually defines Russian success as thwarting the United States. Ashton Carter ukrainemiddle-eastyears The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East. Aurora Levins Morales middle-eastgroupseurope1234567891011»
