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"You've met with him more than with any other world leader."

"helping finance and construct the Iron Dome program"

"we've never had closer military and intelligence cooperation"

"GOLDBERG: Is there anything you could do to move it faster?"

"President Mahmoud Abbas's potential succession"

"Netanyahu told me that he believes Iran is being run by a"

"GOLDBERG: Do you think they are messianic? PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think it's entirely legitimate"

"Syria is basically their only true ally in the region. And it is our estimation that [President Bashar al-Assad's] days are numbered."

"Syria is basically their only true ally in the region"

"when I believe it is in the core national interest of the United States, to direct military actions"

"before he became prime minister, Netanyahu told me"

"After Israel destroyed a clandestine Syrian nuclear reactor in September 2007"

"Al Qaeda-affiliated fighters from Iraq have streamed into Syria, acting, in part, on orders from Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri"

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, both of whom are in Washington this week for meetings with President Obama"

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, both of whom are in Washington this week for meetings with President Obama"

"The two had met secretly on four previous occasions in what amounted to the most vigorous surge of diplomacy between Israelis and Palestinians in year"

"Yoni Netanyahu, Benjamin's brother"

"Yossi Beilin, who served as a member of Peres's cabinet"

"the prime minister and the defense minister, [Ehud Barak,] feel a profound, historic obligation"

"Europe would not have gone forward with sanctions on Iranian oil imports... had it not been for their understanding that it is in the world's interest"

"China would not have abided by the existing sanctions... had it not been for us making the presentation"

"Prime Minister Netanyahu, hopefully when he sees me next week"

"every single commitment I have made to the state of Israel and its security, I have kept"

"Divisions between the Fatah and Hamas factions complicate matters: Their recent agreement is paper-thin"

"the Assad regime is thought to possess between 100 and 200 Scud missiles"

"the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to abandon its external headquarters in Damascus"

"meet, the next day, with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House"

"Obama told me earlier this week that both Iran and Israel should take seriously the possibility of American action"

"Obama also shared fascinating insights about his sometimes tension-filled relationship with Netanyahu"

"The Atlantic... Jeffrey Goldberg"

"The Washington Post... Robert Malley"

"The Washington Post... Aaron David Miller"

"The daily Beast... Dan Ephron"

"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists... Charles P. Blair"

"The Daily Star... Rami G. Khouri"

"Pew Research Center... Anick I."

"The oddest odd couple in Israeli politics might just be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres"

"the good will appears to have run out last September, when Netanyahu vetoed a meeting Peres was to have held with Abbas in Amman, Jordan"

"David Ben-Gurion, is said to have imbued the presidency with zero executive powers precisely to prevent his political rival, Chaim Weizmann, from havi"

"And I think that Ehud Barak understands it"

"their potential pursuit of nuclear weapons... what the Israelis see as an existential issue"

"General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. referred to the Iranian leadership as 'rational.'"

"support Syrians demonstrating for the removal of Bashar Assad's regime"

"Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, that are now backing the insurgency and the regime, respectively"

"Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, that are now backing the insurgency and the regime, respectively"

"Peres nurtured the hope that with his input and consultation, Netanyahu would be much more forthcoming and active in the peace process"

"was able to lend a hand by, among other things, smoothing early wrinkles in Netanyahu's relationship with Obama"

"grouping of states and movements called the Resistance and Deterrence Front — namely Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Hamas"

"grouping of states and movements called the Resistance and Deterrence Front — namely Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Hamas"

"grouping of states and movements called the Resistance and Deterrence Front — namely Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Hamas"