EFTA00700242.txt

"In March 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu... awarded the company a $535 million loan"

"first black president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama"

"the regime of President Bashar Assad"

"Obama wanted to withdraw US troops from Iraq"

"withdraw US troops... from Afghanistan"

"Obama advisor and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright"

"Obama recognized this as a problem and asked Vice President Joe Biden"

"Obama recognized this as a problem and asked Vice President Joe Biden"

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu"

"he ordered the bombing of the troops of then Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic"

"group within the Republican Party known as the Tea Party"

"Governor Mitt Romney advocated and what the White House is doing"

"New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman"

"Fareed Zakaria... a respected columnist with Time"

"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, has endorsed Obama for reelection"

"Chris Christie suddenly became the only Republican governor to find himself working side-by-side with the president"

"the president's adversaries ridiculed the entire project and cited it as an example of his failure"

"while campaigning for Obama, former President Bill Clinton often cited"

"Article 1. Spiegel... Tony Karon"

"Article 3. Foreign Policy... Shadi Hamid"

"Article 4. Ahram Online... Khalid Amayreh"

"Article 5. Asharq Al-Awsat... Tariq Alhomayed"

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

"Hassan Nasrallah in an interview with Al Mayadeen television channel"

"Fareed Zakaria... a respected columnist with Time"

"Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar with the American Enterprise Institute"

"Both Obama and Romney say they oppose any direct deployment of U.S. military force in Syria"

"tensions between Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the President's 2009 efforts to restart the peace process"

"Chinese analyst Jia Qingguo recently told the Council on Foreign Relations"

"Fudan University's Shen Dingli argues"

"France's President Francois Hollande see him as a vital ally"

"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg... last week endorsed Obama for President"

"Time columnist Zakaria"

"Bloomberg was essentially backing Obama as the candidate more likely to take the necessary action"

"At a 2003 farewell party for the scholar Rashid Khalidi... Obama told the audience that his conversations with Khalidi had been 'consistent reminders'"

"Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah recounted Obama telling him in 2004"

"As he told the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in 2008"

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asserted -- twice -- that the United States was 'not taking sides.'"

"the president appointed former Senator George Mitchell as special envoy"

""We knew him before he became president. We knew him and he was very receptive," Abbas said."

"the new alliance between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right Avigdor Lieberman"

"the Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta"

"Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center"

"fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy"

"fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution"

"Ayalon, his boss Avigdor Lieberman"

"Yehuda Shenav, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University"

"Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah party"