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"the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, declared"

"Hezbollah decisively committed his followers on Saturday to an all-out battle in Syria to defeat the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad"

"Ali Rizk, the Beirut bureau chief for Press TV"

"Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

"Saad Hariri, the leader of the March 14 coalition"

"the triple handshake in 1979 on the White House lawn after Carter, Begin, and Sadat had signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty"

"the triple handshake in 1979 on the White House lawn after Carter, Begin, and Sadat had signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty"

"Animosity certainly characterized the relationship between President George H.W. Bush and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir"

"The relationship between President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was quite different, with Clinton making no secret of his great admir"

"A similar relationship developed between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President George W. Bush... the younger Bush developed an admiration for Shar"

"In his capacity as senior National Security Council officer, Abrams worked at the White House"

"Abrams worked at the White House with Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice"

"Abrams worked at the White House with Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney"

"Abrams worked at the White House with... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice"

""Don't get completely consumed with Arab-Israeli issues," Vice President Cheney advised Secretary of Sate Colin Powell"

"proposed by Sharon's bureau chief Dov Weissglass"

"Olmert made a far-reaching offer to Abu Mazen, his interlocutor in the 2007-2008 talks"

"Hezbollah's patron Iran"

"Soon after the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002, Turkey launched an ambitious foreign policy agenda"

"US-Israeli relations, and especially the Bush-Sharon relationship, blossomed and were continued by Ehud Olmert"

"Dr Usama Hasan is senior researcher at the Quilliam Foundation"

"Jinnah's sister Fatima"

"The California summit between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 7-8"

"A former senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed"

"Quilliam Foundation researcher Dr Usama Hasan"

"Rami G. Khouri is published twice weekly by THE DAILY STAR"

"Since 2011, Ankara has moved close to the United States, looking for shelter once again under the NATO umbrella"

"Iran has thrown its full support behind the Assad regime"

"Ankara supported the secular and pan-Iraqi Allawi block in the 2010 Iraqi elections"

"Nuri Al-Maliki, who Ankara considers 'Iran's man in Baghdad.'"

"Turkey (as well as Qatar and Saudi Arabia) is backing Sunni rebels"

"Turkey (as well as Qatar and Saudi Arabia) is backing Sunni rebels"

"Soner Cagaptay, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

"represented by Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid Party"

"represented by Naftali Bennett's Habayit Hayehudi Party"

"Dan Meridor, the former Likud minister"

"Bush himself asked Sharon what had motivated him to disengage from Gaza"

"In Bush's April 2004 letter to Sharon on settlement"

"Olmert made a far-reaching offer to Abu Mazen, his interlocutor in the 2007-2008 talks"

"President Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry"

"Secretaries of State and Defense Rice and Robert Gates... the Bush era"

"Secretaries of State and Defense Rice and Robert Gates... the Bush era"

"Oded Eran - Researcher, Institute for National Security Studies"

"Michael Spence... is Professor of Economics at NYUs Stern School of Business"

"Michael Spence... Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations"

"Michael Spence... Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University"

"Michael Spence... Academic Board Chairman of the Fung Global Institute in Hong Kong"

"He was the chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development"