Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed,… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again,… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
9/11 was not an act of war. It was a criminal act. It was a simple. Criminal act by a bunch of… — Pierre Sprey Copy Share Image
Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“The United States’ alignment with Saudi Arabia fueled its power in the region and throughout the Islamic world—threatening Israel and the West—and… — Kerry Patton Copy Share Image
“the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and… — Fred Halliday Copy Share Image
I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are… — Steven Levitan Copy Share Image
The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am a personal advocate of strong ties between India and Israel, so I am very happy to see that our relations… — Sushma Swaraj Copy Share Image
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“Killing "unbelievers" has been part of — of course not all of — Islam since its inception. Within 10 years of Muhammad's… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary Guard Corps is the official protector of Iran's revolution, with 100,000 troops divided into air, naval and ground divisions. It… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do… — Alice Lok Cahana Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image