The New Middle East (73 page)

 
44
   Bob Woodward,
Bush at War
, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002, p. 342.

 
45
   Clifton Yin, ‘The Freedom Agenda gets Vindicated’, FrumForum, 23 August 2011.

 
46
   Mann,
The Obamians,
loc. 2954.

 
47
   Aaron David Miller,
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive search for Arab–Israeli Peace
, Kindle edition, Bantam Books, New York, 2008, loc. 4279.

 
48
   Yitzhak Benhorin, ‘Obama: Not only Likudniks can be pro-Israeli’, ynetnews.com, 2 February 2008.

 
49
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by the President on a New Beginning’, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 4 June 2009.

 
50
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa’,
19 May 2011.

 
51
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel After Bilateral Meeting, Oval Office’, 20 May 2011.

 
52
   Helene Cooper and Ethan Bronner, ‘Netanyahu Gives No Ground in Congress Speech’,
New York Times
, 24 May 2011.

 
53
   James Kitfield, ‘Netanyahu’s “Unvarnished Truth” Tour’,
The Atlantic
, 25 May 2011.

 
54
   Max Fisher, ‘Does Obama’s victory mean defeat for Netanyahu?’,
Washington Post
, 7 November 2012.

 
55
   BBC News, ‘Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu “liar” ’, 8 November 2011

 
56
   Ari Shavit, ‘Obama coming here to create the space to combat Israeli policy’,
Ha’aretz
, 20 March 2013.

 
57
   Assaf Friedman, ‘Watching the POTUS on Israeli TV: Each Sound Bite More Cringe-Worthy than the Last’,
Ha’aretz
, 21 March 2013.

 
58
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by President Obama and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Joint Press Conference’, 21 March 2013.

 
59
   Margaret Talev and Jonathan Ferziger, ‘Obama Heads for Israel to Bridge Gaps From Two-States to Iran’, Bloomberg, 19 March 2013.

 
60
   US Department of State, ‘Solo Press Availability [with John Kerry] in Tel Aviv, Israel’, 9 April 2013.

 
61
   Paul Richter, ‘John Kerry Says Need For Action Israel-Palestinian Conflict Is Urgent’,
Los Angeles Times
, 17 April 2013.

 
62
   Gil Hoffman, ‘Livni’s Party Angered by E1 Building Plans’,
Jerusalem Post
, 17 April 2013.

 
63
   BBC News, ‘Israel settlements: Netanyahu defies outcry over E-1’, 3 December 2012.

 
64
   Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, ‘Backstage Glimpses of Clinton as Dogged Diplomat, Win or Lose’,
New York Times
, 2 February 2013.

 
65
   Ora Coren and Nadan Feldman, ‘U.S. Aid to Israel Totals $233.7b Over Six Decades’,
Ha’aretz
, 20 March 2013.

 
66
   Bob Woodward,
Plan of Attack
, Simon & Schuster, London, 2004, p. 87.

 
67
   Jonathan Freedland, ‘Patten lays into Bush’s America’,
Guardian
, 9 February 2002.

 
68
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by the President on a New Beginning’.

 
69
   Mark Landler, ‘A New Iran Overture, With Hot Dogs’,
New York Times
, 1 June 2009.

 
70
   President Jimmy Carter, ‘The State of the Union Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of the Congress. January 23, 1980’, The American Presidency Project.

 
71
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy in Press Availability’,
15 June 2009.

 
72
   
Iran – Amnesty International Report 2010.

 
73
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Press Conference by the President’, 23 June 2009.

 
74
   
New York Times
, ‘A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches, US Embassy, Riyadh’, 20 April 2008.

 
75
   James Reynolds, ‘Why is Israel calling Iran a nuclear duck?’, BBC News, 7 March 2012.

 
76
   Scott Peterson, ‘Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979’,
The Christian Science Monitor
,
8 November 2011.

 
77
   David E. Sanger,
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising use of American Power
, Kindle edition, Crown Publishers, New York, 2012, p. 196.

 
78
   Yossi Melman, ‘Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran “stupidest thing I have ever heard” ’,
Ha’aretz
, 7 May 2011.

 
79
   Yaakov Lappin, ‘Former Shin Bet chief slams “messianic” PM, Barak’,
Jerusalem Post
, 29 April 2012.

 
80
   Dror Moreh, ‘Diskin: Netanyahu, Barak too weak’, ynetnews.com, 4 January 2013.

 
81
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel in Joint Press Conference’, 20 March 2013.

 
82
   Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, ‘Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama’, 21 January 2013.

 
83
   BBC News, ‘Al Qaeda chides Iran over 9/11 “conspiracy theories” ’, 28 September 2011.

 
84
   Associated Press, ‘Iran’s supreme leader denies Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons’,
Guardian
, 22 February 2012.

 
85
   Richard Spencer, ‘Morsi tells Iran that Syria’s Assad must go’,
Daily Telegraph
, 30 August 2012.

 
86
   Associated Press, ‘Bahrain: Iran Translation Sidestepped Syria’, 1 September 2012.

 
87
   Simeon Kerr and Camilla Hall, ‘UAE puts 94 on trial in crackdown’,
Financial Times
, 3 March 2013.

 
88
   Barak Ravid, ‘How Israel and China got into a diplomatic row over Knesset members and organ harvesting’,
Ha’aretz
, 5 November 2012.

 
89
   Moncef Marzouki, ‘The Arab Spring Still Blooms’,
New York Times
, 27 September 2012.

 
90
   International Monetary Fund, ‘Saudi Arabia: Selected Issues, IMF Country report No. 12/292’, September 2012 , p. 21.

 
91
   Donna Abu-Nasr, ‘Saudis Skip Arab Spring as Nation Pours Money Into Jobs’, Bloomberg, 3 April 2012.

 
92
   US National Intelligence Council,
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Words
, December 2012, p. 74.

 
93   US Department of State, Daily Press Briefing, 17 January 2013; UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ‘Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report’, April 2012, p. 212.

 
94
   Globalwebindex, ‘Twitter Usage is Booming in Saudi Arabia’, 20 March 2013

 
95
   Interview Transcript, ‘President Barack Obama with Jose Diaz-Balart’, NBC Universal, 12 September 2012.

 
96
   
Egypt Independent
, ‘Egypt imports 140,000 teargas canisters from US’, 23 February 2013.

 
97
   Hillary Rodham Clinton, ‘Nomination Hearing To Be Secretary of State: Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’, 13 January 2009.

 
98
   US Department of State, ‘Remarks on American Leadership at the Council on Foreign Relations’, 31 January 2013.

6: Iraq: SNAFU

 
  
1
   Robin Wright, Peter Baker, ‘Iraq, Jordan See Threat To Election From Iran’,
Washington Post
, 8 December 2004.