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"Netanyahu's defense minister, Ehud Barak"

"Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann"

"ECB President Mario Draghi"

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel"

"Joschka Fischer was German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998-2005"

"But the relationship between these two leaders is bad."

"The election of an Egyptian president from the Muslim Brotherhood"

"played a key role in founding Germany's Green Party"

"which he led for almost two decades"

"creating a buddy-buddy image of Obama and Morsi"

"Aaron David Miller, a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars"

"the royal court's patronage network is largely funded by financial aid from Saudi Arabia"

"Friday's much-publicized phone call between the U.S. and Israeli leaders"

"he has made trips to Washington, where he usually meets with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta"

"he has made trips to Washington, where he usually meets with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton"

"When President Obama phoned Netanyahu in early September to paper over the latest tensions"

"Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat who worked alongside Barak for years"

"now a contributing fellow with the left-leaning Israel Policy Forum in New York"

"Martin Indyk... now director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution"

"The Ayatollah's Nuclear Gamble, a report written by an Iranian-American scientist... says Khosrow Semnani, the report's author"

"His study, published by the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics"

"His study, published by... the nongovernmental organization Omid for Iran"

"Jamshid Barzegar, a senior analyst at BBC Persian"

"The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari"

"Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at Scotland's University of St. Andrews"

"Azadeh Moaveni worked across the Middle East as a reporter for Time"

"before joining the Los Angeles Times to cover the war in Irayr"

"top Hamas leader Khalid al-Meshaal"

"Ismail Haniyeh, who heads the administration in Gaza"

"With its chief Mahmoud Abbas"

"cash checks from "well-wishers" such as Iran"