#eastern

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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#i #never #nobel #select #surprised

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East. ↗

— Dennis Ross

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#america #attachment #east #eastern #four

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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#central #cold #cold war #courage #decades