Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.