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"was a senior Middle East advisor to President Obama from 2009 to 2011"

"Dennis Ross is counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

"The Saudis see Iran trying to encircle them with its Quds Force"

"In 1959, Egypt and Sudan agreed to increase their share of the Nile water"

"allowing Egypt to build the Aswan Dam"

"Ethiopia has decided... to build the Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile"

"Egypt's Minister of Water Resources Mohamed Abdel-Motaleb"

"Egypt's Foreign Minster Nabil Fahmi"

"Sherif Mousa, the director of the Middle East program at the American University in Cairo"

"Ethiopia and Sudan signed... a protocol to form a joint force tasked with the protection of their borders"

"Iranian financial support has resumed to Hamas, but at a level lower than that which preceded the rupture"

"In late February, Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah visited Tehran for that purpose"

"after contacts between Zahar and Marwan Issa"

"Marwan Issa, a senior leader in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades"

"Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing"

"In his meeting with Meshaal... Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ramadan Shalah discussed the details"

"Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ramadan Shalah"

"head of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani"

"Youssef Rizqa, the former information minister in the Hamas government"

"Ahmed Youssef, a former political adviser to Palestinian leader Ismail Haniyeh"

"Hamas figure Salah Bardawil"

"Jihad Taha, a Hamas figure in Lebanon"

"Naim Abbas, a Palestinian from Ain el-Hilweh and a high-ranking member of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades"

"Abdullah Azzam Brigades (an al-Qaeda affiliate)"

"Adnan Mohammed, a former resident of Ain el-Hilweh"

"Adnan Mohammed... was identified as one of the two suicide bombers who killed 25 people outside of the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon in November 2013"

"Nidal Hisham al-Mughayer... was identified as a participant in the twin attacks on the Iranian Cultural Center in Beirut on February 19"

"high-ranking Fatah official Brig. General Jamil Zeidan"

"Wisam Abul Kel, a member of Fatah"

"Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah"

"the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), has broken ranks with its countrymen to support Assad"

"the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), has broken ranks with its countrymen to support Assad and Hezbollah"

"simultaneously being pounded by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)"

"Nicholas Saidel, JD, MA, is the Associate Director of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis & Response (ISTAR)"

"he is Israel's defense minister"

"President Barack Obama"

"Secretary of State John Kerry"

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu"

"the Saudi offer to pay for the $2-billion to $3-billion arms package Egypt is seeking from the Russians"

"As for Sudan, it has taken Ethiopia's side and is supportive of the dam's construction"

"Islamist supporters of its ally, Mohamed Morsi"

"Hezbollah's relationship with influential Palestinian factions such as Hamas is at an all-time low considering their antithetical views on the fate of"

"military capacity now bolstered by billions of dollars in external funding from Europe and Saudi Arabia, the LAF will be better equipped"

"Associate Director of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis & Response (ISTAR) at the University of Pennsylvania"

"Kerry had called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain"

"Ya'alon wants to succeed Netanyahu as leader of the Likud Party"

"This long overdue visit will culminate in Meshaal meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei"

"Qatar was mediating with Iran to restore ties with Hamas"

"continuing the `strategic partnership,'"

"Ahmad al-Assir... becoming a fugitive for his role in attacks on LAF checkpoints that left thirty-eight dead in June 2013"