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"Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who is the special envoy to the Quartet"

"David Makovsky, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

"Martin S. Indyk, director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution"

"Ghaith al-Omari, the executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine"

"Robert Malley, the Middle East and North Africa program director at the International Crisis Group"

"Robert Danin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations"

"Quartet, a Middle East peacemaking group that also includes the European Union, the United Nations and Russia"

"Quartet, a Middle East peacemaking group that also includes the European Union, the United Nations and Russia"

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, have crisscrossed the Continent in recent weeks"

"China has now suggested that IBSA be wrapped into the BRICS framework"

"the economic rise of China, India and Brazil is important"

"the economic rise of China, India and Brazil is important"

"China, India and Russia are competitors for power in Asia"

"Mr. Nye is a professor at Harvard"

"virtually every government in the region contacted Maurizio Bussi"

"Maurizio Bussi, deputy director at the ILO's regional office"

"economist John Sfakianakis at Banque Saudi Fransi in Riyadh"

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn suddenly resigned this May as director general of the International Monetary Fund"

"Roger Cohen, the International Herald Tribune columnist"

"David Remnick, its editor"

"Rick's contribution to this controversy is a 'Talk of the Town' piece"

"his father, Sidney"

"We are friends—I would even say loving friends"

"TNR staffer like Ryan Lizza"

"TNR staffer like... James Wood"

"Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador in Damascus"

"Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at George Washington University"

"hard-liners led by his brother Maher"

"Hafez Makhlouf, a cousin"

"Iran had pledged $5.8 billion in emergency aid to Assad's regime"

"Larry Diamond, an expert on democratization at Stanford University"

"J-Street is a flop... It has spent millions of dollars—much of it George Soros's, I presume"

"Tariq Alhomayed is the Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat"

"Martin Peretz is editor-in-chief emeritus of The New Republic"

"President al-Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf"