"The next Israeli government will have to find a way to move forward, despite these problematic prospects for the Palestinian future."

"...the liberal leaders of Turkey’s foreign policy have their own reasons for keeping away from Israel. They think that Turkey has a real opportunity to join the EU, and that is why they tend to coordinate with the European view concerning a number of issues such as Iran’s nuclear armament, the Great Middle East project and the Arab-Israeli conflict."

"In Israel, the split in the Likud party and the return of the Labor party as an active opposition, is bringing some dynamism to a stagnant political scene and engaging again a public that had become despondent and apathetic. The absence of any debate or opposition in Israel had given carte blanche to the right wing Israeli government to build material and psychological walls. Paradoxically, these walls created a kind of ghetto for Israelis as well as the cantons they created for Palestinians."

Wouldn't you love to go on an exotic eight day safari? Where, instead of hunting animals, you could "experience a dynamic and intensive eight day exploration of Israel's struggle for survival and security in the Middle East today: a military, humanitarian, historical, judicial, religious, and political reality check?"

"You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it,” O’Reilly told his national audience on June 20. “And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you’re a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they’re undermining everything and they don’t care, couldn’t care less.”

"An ill-advised simplistic approach to extremism is one that views shunning of those groups which mobilize around religion, oppose US policies in their own region and resort to political violence. This needs to be altered. Ultimately only that policy which while rejecting extremism also as a multi-faceted complex phenomenon, can deal with the problem of extremism both within governments, opposition groups and other political groups."

"I do not think we are going to be successful in getting Iran and other countries to abandon nuclear weapons ambitions unless we first recognize that the elephant actually exists and take concrete measures to regulate it..."

Australia is an independent sovereign nation that continues to be inappropriately governed under British colonial law.