#middle east

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. ↗

— Marc Maron

#condition #east #get #israel #jerusalem

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ↗

— Golda Meir

#bring #desert #east #israelis #me

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#best #despair #east #just #like

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. ↗

— Barack Obama

#east #issue #middle #middle east #obviously

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#amplification #attach #between #dialogue #east

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#east #here #middle #middle east

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous. ↗

— James Woolsey

#decades #east #i #i think #lot

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#cooking #dance #eastern #generally #i

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. ↗

— James Buchan

#chances #conditions #despots #each #east