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"facts on the ground will be no more reversible than Russia's annexation of Crimea"

"The brute fact that Latvia is a member of the NATO alliance is hard to ignore"

"Shlomo Ben-Ami... is Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace"

""Abdullah Sword" military exercises in the north-east of Saudi Arabia"

"In last Thursday's phone call with Chancellor Merkel, Putin demanded that to defuse the crisis"

"Putin demanded that to defuse the crisis, the Ukrainian government withdraw its troops from southeastern regions"

"Defense Minister Ya'alon even went as far as to publicly assess"

"China is doing so by upping its military cooperation with Saudi Arabia"

"The obvious answer is Iran, Saudi's great regional rival"

"Benjamin Netanyahu is momentarily breathing a sigh of relief now that he can blame Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas for scuttling the lat"

"Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon undiplomatically called Secretary of State John Kerry 'obsessive and messianic'"

"much as Hezbollah and its Iranian benefactors have done from Lebanon"

"Israel and Egypt, bolstered by American economic and security assistance"

"Israel and Egypt, bolstered by American economic and security assistance"

"The Iranians, meanwhile, have been keen to work with Syria to build-up Hezbollah forces in Lebanon"

"Jerusalem's efforts to steal U.S. secrets under the cover of trade missions and joint defense technology contracts have 'crossed red lines.'"

"After denying for over a decade that Pollard was its paid agent, Israel apologized"

"Israeli Embassy spokesman Aaron Sagui"

"the combination of Putin's actions and Western reactions will poison relations between Putin and Obama"

"From: Office of Tetje Rod-Larsen Subject: May 7 update Date: Wed, 07 May 2014"

"Graham Allison is director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs"

"decision by the IMF to release the first $3 billion of a $17 billion emergency rescue package to prevent the country from default"

"the IMF was able to pull the package together quickly and win approval for it only because of cooperation from all the parties—including Putin's Russi"

"Mr Obama's policy and personality have accelerated it"

"George W Bush undid much of that by fighting an illegal war in Iraq"

"leaders such as Russia's Vladimir Putin"

"Ukraine, in contrast to foundering Russia, has a new $17 billion IMF loan"

"By staging such a forceful display with Abdullah Sword, the kingdom is showing the region"

"President Obama in Manila last week"

"When the National Security Agency was caught eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone"