Among their neighbours, the Kurdish culture is closest to Persian culture.

In Greece and Spain, protesters told us that their neighbors stories were a revelation.

We wish to see Israeli citizens living in peace and security alongside all their neighbors.

Muslims in The Netherlands are responding by opening up their mosques and reaching out to neighbors.

Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

And fear came on all that dwelt round about them and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.

When Germans tie their hands with constitutional budget laws, they are in effect untying their neighbors .

Some feel envious of their economic neighbours, which can lead to greedy, risky investing.

People are making anywhere between 200 and 700 dollars a month letting their neighbors use their car when they're not using it.

They have resisted, defied and survived the first Islamic conquest and hundreds of years of subsequent persecution and degradation at the hands of their neighbors.

The difference, he thought, was that Americans understood that they could not flourish unless their neighbors prospered as well.

People in those countries had the sense that they could understand their neighbors and fellow citizens, and that they shared a close link with them.

Would it be a good idea for everyone to believe in the evil eye, so that when bad things happened to them they immediately blame their neighbors? Probably not.

But most people care far more about how well they are doing relative to their neighbors than to citizens of distant lands.

But the mechanisms that individuals can use to join with their immediate neighbors in political action that makes a difference in their lives have become much weaker.

They traded them with their neighbors for things like stingray barbs, and the consequence was that stone axes ended up over a large part of Australia.

When the wildfires broke out in San Diego, in October of 2007, people turned to Twitter to report what was happening and to find information from neighbors about what was happening around them.

This 20 years difference can easily make sectors that rely on copyright, such as the education and entertainment industry, more expensive to operate than their neighbours.

The best way to get someone to cut their electricity bill is to show them their own spending, to show them what their neighbors are spending, and then show what an energy conscious neighbor is spending.

They will then be forced to make public and explicit choices about the sort of Europe that they want, and this will put them at odds with their neighbors.

The only way for Kosovo Serbs to have a say in the future of Kosovo, a future where they can live in peace with their neighbours, is to engage now in the political life of Kosovo.

It is in the interest of the entire region including those countries that do not seem to face an imminent threat of revolt to contribute to their neighbors economic revival and facilitate their political transitions.

A second reason is that Germans are fed up with being Europe s scapegoat blamed for their neighbors ills while being asked to take on risks and provide generous financial transfers.

Instead, we are witnessing the birth of a non polar order, in which America s chief competitors remain too busy with problems at home and in their immediate neighborhoods to shoulder the heaviest international burdens.

The managers of these new safe haven currencies are now desperately seeking at least a temporary peg or some system of bands relative to the exchange rates of their big neighbors.

This time, maybe confused or discouraged by the military disaster in Somalia, the international community remained silent, and somewhere around 800,000 people were slaughtered by their own countrymen sometimes their own neighbors using farm implements as weapons.

But, until US and EU regional policies are in sync with their aid programs, the aid will be seen, yet again, as a reward to corrupt officials for playing nice with their neighbors at a heavy cost to their citizens.

They are internally divided between Fatah and Hamas, under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, isolated from the outside world in Gaza, hopeless in the region s refugee camps, and rebuffed by their Arab neighbors.

Syria s aid to Saddam in maneuvering around the United Nations oil for food program brought Iraqi money to inhabitants of the border region, who have always been closer in customs, dialect, and outlook to their Iraqi neighbors than to their fellow Syrians.

It was local freedom which leads a great number of citizens to value the affection of their neighbors and of their kindred, perpetually brings men together, and forces them to help one another, in spite of the propensities which sever them.

It is no accident, for example, that Europe s most successful welfare states were created in ethnically homogeneous Scandinavia. People in those countries had the sense that they could understand their neighbors and fellow citizens, and that they shared a close link with them.

Europeans did much better at reconciliation with their neighbors after WWII, in part because the malign and evil conditions of Nazi rule made it necessary to talk about the past in terms of moral categories rather than power politics.

These cartographers whose only common characteristic is Internet access are embracing the opportunity to depict the places that they know and love, whether to help their neighbors get around or to give faraway people a glimpse of their local environments.

Adam Smith talks about 18th century America, where the prohibition against visible displays of wealth was so great, it was almost a block in the economy in New England, because even wealthy farmers could find nothing to spend their money on without incurring the displeasure of their neighbors.

Citizens in the stronger European economies are increasingly unwilling to provide financial support to their struggling neighbors and their elected representatives will find it hard to ignore growing resentment of repeated diversion of national tax revenues, which has yielded only disappointing outcomes.

On the contrary, users in countries such as Bahrain, Morocco, and Oman are clearly disadvantaged by the longer term because they have to wait for 20 years longer than their Arab neighbours before universities, students, and other users can legally copy, translate, and use old works.

Paradoxically, cross country measures of income and wealth inequality are actually falling, thanks to continuing robust growth in emerging markets. But most people care far more about how well they are doing relative to their neighbors than to citizens of distant lands.