11/18/2015
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"It is still difficult to go home and talk about aid to the Palestinians, you know, and $400 million plus when we have their minister of prisons saying that the people in prison--terrorists--are heroes..."
"Ambassador Patterson, thank you for your service. Truly, the Egyptian people know that you love and care for them and I just want to say thank you for doing that."
"Can we send a very clear message that unless this stops the money will stop?"
"I agree and... I am a student of the Middle East... and I understand that there are but at some point when our words become meaningless the leverage of those dollars they cease to exist."