Synonyms for Middle East
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1. Middle Eastnoun

   Synonyms:
   Mideast

2. Middle Eastnoun

   The region comprising southwest Asia and northeast Africa.

   Synonyms:
   Mideast

Princeton's WordNet

1. Middle East, Mideast, Near Eastnoun

   the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century

   "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"

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1. Pastor John Hagee:

   I believe that Christians United for Israel will continue to grow exponentially especially because Israel is in a time of danger, every Christian who carries a Bible knows that God Almighty is interested in the welfare of Israel, and they know they have a Biblical mandate to stand up and speak up for Israel. The chaos we’re experiencing in the Middle East is a challenge for every Christian to come out of the closet and stand up and speak up for Israel and the Jewish people.

2. Fox News:

   As a result of their involvement, they now have a naval base in the warm water Mediterranean, they have active, very powerful airbase in Syria, they have a presence in the Middle East. They are the power.

3. John Williams:

   Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is extremely deadly, about 30 % of people who are infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome will die, so the virus got over one of the barriers -- it's able to infect humans, grow in them and cause disease -- but thankfully it really doesn't spread well person to person, other than very, very close contacts.

4. Karim Sadjadpour:

   Since 1979 the two countries have fought numerous proxy conflicts throughout the Middle East and often exchange threats and insults. But they've stopped short of direct conflict and eventually agreed to a cold reconciliation.

5. Marco Rubio:

   What he is doing is, he is trying to replace us as the single most important power broker in the Middle East.