Alex Vatanka from the Middle East Institute doubts that.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Which would of course cripple the global economy, because as much as we want to win our independence from oil, most of our oil were still coming from the Middle East.

这将导致世界经济瘫痪，虽然我们一直竭力发掘本国石油资源，我们绝大部分的石油,仍然来自中东。

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Secretary Clinton is in Morocco for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Middle East,North Africa, and the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations to discuss human rights, democracy,and economic development in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

One of the rabbis arrested, Saul Kassin,is considered the leading cleric of the U.S.Sephardic community, comprised of families that emigrated mostly from the Middle East, Syria in particular, following the formation of the state of Israel in 1948.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

I am coming here it is like a dream, and I am imagining something like a historical path, like the path the merchants and the people from the Middle East took down here bringing their music and their culture, and their swords of course, to come and bring their culture to this land."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The festival is presenting theater,dance,music,film, literature and art from twenty-two countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Friends of the Earth Middle East is an organization of activists from Israel, Jordan and the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The largest numbers come from the European Union, followed by the Middle East and the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Sharla Musabih has watched the Emirate of Dubai transform from a small town into one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Soli Ozel of Istanbul's Bilgi University said the alliance, one of the most significant in the Middle East, stemmed from a recognition of mutual security interests.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The agreement aims to help pave the way toward creating a series of gas pipelines from central Asia and the Middle East through Turkey and into Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Clinton spoke in Morocco at a democracy and development conference called the Forum for the Future, which joins foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations with officials from North Africa and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Even if President Obama,tomorrow, returns what remains of the Iranian assets, if President Obama condemns Israel, if President Obama withdraws all American forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and if the United States announced that they recognize Iran as the most powerful player in the Middle East, Mr.Khamenei will bring some more excuses to prevent the resumption of talks and relations between the two countries, because "death to America" is something which extends the regime's life,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.21