There he received a visit from a group of classically trained middle-school students.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Gidon Bromberg is the Israeli director of the Friends of the Middle East, an environmental group that has long been monitoring use of the aquifer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

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

Shaul Mofaz, an Israeli parliamentarian and former army chief of staff, says a radical axis of Iran,Syria, Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza are trying to destabilize the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Alex Vatanka,a senior Middle East analyst for the Britain-based Jane's Publishing Group, says that compounded official anger about Western broadcasts to Iran when it was already the target of broadcasts by Voice of America's own Persian News Network.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

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

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03