"The United States will pick perfectly reasonable, 'representative' leaders for the Palestinians, like the Iraqi legislative council. These leaders will presumably do whatever it takes to stamp out resistance to them and to U.S. and Israeli dictates. This seems to be the Bush administration version of democracy."

"Canadian news media reported the story with some mild protest; not because the men's detention was unfair and unreasonable, not because they were prominent members of a Canadian religious community, not even because they were Canadian citizens, but because they were moderates."

"Americans frequently discuss the importance of reforming the Saudi curriculum in religious colleges, as well as revamping religious textbooks used in regular schools. But the young generation has now been raised to believe in the importance of implementing Islamic law, or Sharia."

"He was an extraordinary source of illumination -- making truths obvious that otherwise would have been hidden in the haze, the fog, or the deliberate concealment by those who profited and prospered from the darkness."

"....Abdullah tried in vain to persuade President George W. Bush to deal with Sharon before attacking Saddam Hussein, hinting that if Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians could be curtailed, the Arab world would be better disposed to accept an American campaign to oust the Iraqi regime."

"On April 3, 2002, the invasion of Jenin by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) began. It lasted for nearly two horror filled weeks. If you’re Irish, think of the sacking of Drogheda, in 1649, at the hands of Oliver Cromwell. The pretext by the Ariel Sharon Gang for the collective punishment of Jenin, itself a War Crime under the Geneva Convention, was that the IOF was looking for suicide bombers."

"But if Wesley Clark is “antiwar,” then antiwar is a pliable term that doesn’t mean much as it morphs into a codeword for tactical objections rather than principled opposition."

"We are not THAT stupid to swallow the notion that Israel is a democracy that respects the basic civil rights of its citizens when an Israeli state attorney representing the Israeli government has argued that an Arab political party 'should be banned because they supported making Israel a state for all its citizens, which she said would contradict Israel's founding principle as a Jewish state.'"