"....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.'"

"I had been disinclined to believe all the talk on neo-con American radio talk-shows that that Islam was at war with the West because they hated our prosperity and way of life, to paraphrase George Bush."

"The ink of a Scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr"

- Muhammad, peace be upon him, Messenger of Allah (swt)

"If the freedom fighters were armed by the U.S. and firing at Russians in Afghanistan, they are our sort of freedom fighters. If the same people, or their Arab allies receive their support locally or from other Arab states, and they fire at the U.S., they are automatically labeled terrorists."

"In a scenario changed by the 9/11 events, and after the excessive reaction of the Bush Administration to the so-called terrorism resulting in Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the strain on the American economy has been so tremendous that all these supply-side theories have fallen apart on the ground realities of highly strained economy that ensued after these unforeseen events and the wars."