"While military spending zooms upward, a downward slide continues for education, health care, housing, environmental protection, emergency preparedness and a wide array of other essentials. Across the United States, communities are suffering grim consequences. “Now it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967. The same statement is profoundly true in 2005."

"George Bush needs to acknowledge that he has lost control of the situation in Iraq."

"For months now, Israeli peace activists have joined the villagers every Friday in a protest march to the site of the fence, turning Bil'in into a symbol of non-violent resistance. The site has already been leveled, but the fence itself has not yet been built in this sector. Last week's demonstration was attacked by the army with special brutality, so we decided to come back in force this week."

"There are many people in Israel who hoped that without him the Palestinian society would break apart, that anarchy would destroy its very foundations, that armed factions would kill each other and the national leadership. They are certainly glad that Arafat is dead and pray for the failure of Mahmoud Abbas."

Still it is not time to write requiem for Iraqi nation. It is not Iraqi nation that is dying. Deaths do not kill nations. Diseases do. A whole nation is dying in America, a nation which can see victims of 9/11 and Katrina, but not the victims of American lies.

"To the utter disappointment of Britain and its allies, the problem, nevertheless, remains. Khilafah still provides motivation to many actions and reactions. Consequently, the centuries old zeal of Islamophobes to abolish Khilafah is as much the root of all unacknowledged terrorism as the renewed zeal of Muslims to re-establish it is the mother of all solutions."

The role of a photojournalist in conflict is to portray the truth of the events that occur and to provide unbiased reporting of the conflict. It is important to understand that the media plays a role in every conflict; we can influence conflict by fanning the fires or easing tensions. Journalists and photographers have a responsibility to understand their influence on events and look beyond the surface of events.

"Professor Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors from the Nazi era, seeks an honest and just settlement of the quandary of a violent episode of Middle East history..."