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"Secretary of state John Kerry singlehandedly propelled negotiations"

"the Obama administration is pushing ambitious trade initiatives"

"The US and its international allies reached a deal with Iran to chill its nuclear ambitions"

"Putin for his annexation of Crimea"

"Washington Post columnist David Ignatius"

"hawkish editor of the Washington Post editorial page, Fred Hiatt"

"For 12 years, the United States has maintained a troop presence in Afghanistan"

"America failed fully to stabilise Iraq"

"Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made a joint appearance at the Munich Security Conference"

"Labor's leader, Yitzhak Herzog"

"Moshe Kahlon, the popular former Likud Minister of Communications"

"Meir Dagan, the former Mossad head"

"Kori Schake is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution"

"John Bolton... is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute"

"During the 2008 presidential election, she was senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign"

"Netanyahu's Likud"

"The Likud Party apparatus is in the hands of Danny Danon, the Party chairman."

"Avigdor Lieberman... controls his old ultra-rightist party, Yisrael Beiteinu"

"His Justice and Development Party (known by its Turkish initials, AKP) won 43 percent of the vote"

"When Basbug was released on March 7, Erdogan personally called to congratulate him"

"Erdogan's chief of intelligence, Hakan Fidan"

"Erdogan is now ready to move actively against the Gulen movement's network. "We'll walk into their dens. They will pay for this""

"The chief prosecutor in Istanbul, seen as a backer of Gulen, called in Erdogan's chief of intelligence, Hakan Fidan, in February 2012"

"The new, de facto alliance between Erdogan and the Turkish General Staff was launched at the February 26 meeting of the National Security Council"

"threat of US military force against Damascus convinced the Assad regime to abandon its chemical weapons programme"

"On Russia, the US has been leading the way in trying to punish Putin for his annexation of Crimea"

"Then there are Meir Dagan... All are privately close to Olmert"

"and Yuval Diskin... All are privately close to Olmert"

"chief among them Moshe Kahlon... All are privately close to Olmert"

"Secretary of State John Kerry's push... the Obama administration"

"Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry inhabit, a world unfortunately populated with many leading figures"

"both Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton"

"On Tuesday, when Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the questioning from his former colleague John "

"Kerry and McCain are both Vietnam veterans (and failed Presidential candidates), and had been known to be friendly."

"Abbas conducted direct negotiations with Israeli leaders: first with Labor's Justice Minister, Yossi Beilin, in 1995, and then with centrist Prime Min"

"Abbas conducted direct negotiations with Israeli leaders: first with Labor's Justice Minister, Yossi Beilin, in 1995"

"Erel Margalit, told reporters he welcomes Kahlon's return to politics, suggesting an alliance may be taking shape"

"Kerry could profitably reflect on the opportunities it provides to focus his attention and strengthen America's hand"

"Obama and Kerry have been fiddling over Israeli-Palestinian negotiations"

"Hal Harvey, C.E.O. of Energy Innovation"

"Alex Laskey, the company's co-founder"

"Harrison Ford, a longtime board member of Conservation International"

"if we had left Morsi on his seat... Brotherhood rule"

"The Mubarak regime and Muslim Brotherhood cooperated and benefited from one another."

"Prior to Mubarak, Sadat used the Muslim Brotherhood to crush the Egyptian left"

"Hassan Malek was quick to haggle with his Mubarak era counterparts over ways to divvy up the national wealth"

"Saad Al-Katatni... huddled up with leaders of the former state party (the National Democratic Party)"

"Morsi personally paid courtesy calls on some former NDP luminaries during his campaign tours between the first and second rounds of the 2012 president"

"Saad Al-Katatni, head of the Brotherhood's political wing (the Freedom and Justice Party)"