https://minutesof.com/on/middle-east/ Everyone on the record about Middle East: 15 verbatim quotes from 3 people, August 2012 to March 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:06 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/081766ba-afc2-4394-90e3-8a6fe2a4d6e0/ https://minutesof.com/q/081766ba-afc2-4394-90e3-8a6fe2a4d6e0/ “The second is supply chain disruptions and higher energy and commodity prices owing to the conflict in the Middle East.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches middle east https://minutesof.com/q/0660ae6a-3f5d-48a6-801c-9fc5e6a72251/ https://minutesof.com/q/0660ae6a-3f5d-48a6-801c-9fc5e6a72251/ “I think you you should look at Israel, you know, as the new Sparta, really, This small country with a relatively small population has taken on and defeated a country of 90,000,000 people.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Brink Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:09:37 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/bad5d59e-3c5d-4e79-abec-69049a1fbccd/ https://minutesof.com/q/bad5d59e-3c5d-4e79-abec-69049a1fbccd/ “One is you end up with an Iranian regime, which is still run by Ayatollahs, but is prepared to be more compliant and will negotiate with Americans and with the rest of the Middle East.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Times News Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:55 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/cb3e8630-468e-4bfa-b243-d80287fcad95/ https://minutesof.com/q/cb3e8630-468e-4bfa-b243-d80287fcad95/ “In all of those cases, the superior air power and military of The United States and the West quickly removed the regimes or dictators, but then it was chaos.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Times News Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:55 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/c4ae4406-9de4-43af-84f6-7f61f07e0ebc/ https://minutesof.com/q/c4ae4406-9de4-43af-84f6-7f61f07e0ebc/ “So that scenario is a possibility, but Iran will not have the international reach to destabilize the whole of the Middle East.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Times News Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:55 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/c4ae4406-9de4-43af-84f6-7f61f07e0ebc/ https://minutesof.com/q/c4ae4406-9de4-43af-84f6-7f61f07e0ebc/ “So that scenario is a possibility, but Iran will not have the international reach to destabilize the whole of the Middle East.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Times News Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:55 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/07b9440d-6684-4431-adf4-b3e2dda9895c/ https://minutesof.com/q/07b9440d-6684-4431-adf4-b3e2dda9895c/ “I think it's the beginning of the end of the theocratic regime in Iran. How quickly that regime comes down, I think it's hard to predict.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, TalkTV Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:15:01 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/76d259e5-06a6-4186-9cb9-4a72745bc375/ https://minutesof.com/q/76d259e5-06a6-4186-9cb9-4a72745bc375/ “It's ChatGPT. It is the verb. It is the thing that Google had in 2003.” — Brad Gerstner, Khosla Ventures Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:51:48 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/80b86fdf-a612-4f6e-84b0-ea3470e3aaa7/ https://minutesof.com/q/80b86fdf-a612-4f6e-84b0-ea3470e3aaa7/ “So in in Abu Dhabi, they announced a five gigawatt US AI you know, it's a UAE, US AI campus. It's an incredible architectural campus.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 22 May 2025 16:23:05 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/f4b80d58-45a6-4cff-a14b-a852835c9c9f/ https://minutesof.com/q/f4b80d58-45a6-4cff-a14b-a852835c9c9f/ “The truth about the Palestinian issue, in my opinion, is that most Arab leaders, or the leadership of most Arab states, lost patience with the Palestinians quite well over the last five to seven years.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Technion UK Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:45:56 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/e607a5e5-aecd-4f29-a82b-c210d419c7a9/ https://minutesof.com/q/e607a5e5-aecd-4f29-a82b-c210d419c7a9/ “The truth about the Palestinian issue, in my opinion, is that most Arab leaders, or the leadership of most Arab states, lost patience with the Palestinians” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Technion UK Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:45:56 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/a0737d05-9d8a-40c4-a5e8-7d0ba45a994b/ https://minutesof.com/q/a0737d05-9d8a-40c4-a5e8-7d0ba45a994b/ “the basic fact is that the Palestinian issue is no longer being allowed to define much of the region's politics. And this is a huge change.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Technion UK Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:45:56 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/b184c467-eaf6-431f-83eb-3ff2ec1032ca/ https://minutesof.com/q/b184c467-eaf6-431f-83eb-3ff2ec1032ca/ “I think the problem with the Muslim brotherhood is it's more interested in Islam than it is in democracy. Democracy. And it is the only significantly organized political party” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Cambridge Union Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:29:16 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/102421b2-80ff-4c8c-8516-052b8f734fa1/ https://minutesof.com/q/102421b2-80ff-4c8c-8516-052b8f734fa1/ “I think the problem with the Muslim brotherhood is it's more interested in Islam than it is in democracy.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Cambridge Union Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:29:16 +0000 middle east https://minutesof.com/q/7feaf7b1-fda2-4797-a078-405bd04c3287/ https://minutesof.com/q/7feaf7b1-fda2-4797-a078-405bd04c3287/ “Bear in mind when you're talking about Egypt, forty four percent of the population is illiterate and exists on less than $2 a day.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Cambridge Union Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:29:16 +0000 middle east