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"In the wake of the Annapolis conference in November 2007 Bush appointed another Marine Corps general... James Jones"

"Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to Jimmy Carter"

"In an interview with Charles Gati in Politico Magazine, Zbigniew Brzezinski"

"Valerie Amos, the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator"

"Gen. Salim Idriss, the commander of the moderate Free Syrian Army"

"Monzer Akbik, a spokesman for the Syrian Opposition Council"

"Gen. John R. Allen, former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan"

"Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, IDF chief of staff"

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu"

"Recently, Apple paid about $350 million for Israel-based PrimeSense Ltd."

"served in the Department of Justice between 1990 and 1992"

"Alon Tal of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev"

"Alon Tal... is a visiting professor at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University"

"Yousef Abu-Mayla is a water expert at Al Azhar University in Gaza"

"Israel continues to sell water to Gaza"

"much of the power is still provided by Israel's utility company"

"a draft report was duly presented to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice"

"when a confrontation developed between him and [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, Obama caved in"

"Netanyahu's push-back in the face of a US diplomatic initiative to challenge this prerogative"

"General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Obama's chief military adviser"

"the Senkaku islands fall under the protection of the US-Japanese military alliance"

"the Philippines are likely to become America's most important partner in a separate, but similar, conflict"

"Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych backed away last week from an agreement that would have established free trade and deepened political cooperatio"

"reopening talks with Moscow on a customs union of states of the former Soviet Union"

"These foreign jihadists are recruited from their home countries by a network headed by a fighter known as Abu Ahmad al-Iraqi"

"American diplomacy now has three major tasks: to define a level of Iranian nuclear capacity limited to plausible civilian uses"

"balancing nuclear constraints against tranches of sanctions relief"

"Chris Schroeder, an aide back in the day to Secretary of State James A. Baker III"

"US Vice President Joe Biden is set to visit Beijing. This was initially intended to be a relaxed meeting with President Xi Jinping"

"The Hamas government refuses to buy alternative fuels"

"US President Barack Obama challenged the Chinese move by sending two unarmed B-52 long-range bombers into the new zone"

"Obama's deputy now has to consider some serious questions"

"Filipino Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin has already announced that the US will in the future inform his country's armed forces"

"about 250 Chechens, based in the suburbs of Aleppo and coordinated by an operative known as Abu Omar al-Chechani"

"Time for Plan B: Work with the U.S. on joint technology investment and deployment to safeguard against asymmetrical attacks."

"Israel has been unwilling to commit ground troops to uprooting Hezbollah positions"

"China and the U.S. are playing cat and mouse in the Senkaku Islands"

"rival Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority"

"it looked like he simply lacked courage and had bowed to Russian pressure and threats"

"Yanukovych also balked at the EU's demand that Ukraine release his charismatic political opponent Yulia Tymoshenko from jail"

"It brought its considerable pressure to bear by banning some Ukrainian imports, imposing trade sanctions, and threatening Ukraine with large gas bills"

"Anya Schmemann is an Assistant Dean at American University's School of International Service"

"She is a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Center for the National Interest"

"The interim agreement reached on Nov. 24... In exchange for an estimated $8 billion in sanctions relief, Iran will freeze for six months its existing "