"If I look at the American leadership , they all appear to be from some tribe of man-eaters. Show Mr. Bush some barrels of oil and he may destroy the whole country for them."

"If Edward Said and Noam Chomsky argue that the role of the intellectual is to speak truth to power and Bill Moyers says the same of journalism, then what Laidi is arguing is much the same for art and culture in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."

"To avoid turning the whole Muslim world into Palestine (s) and Iraq (s) and to avoid turning their own countries from becoming Nazi Germany, the appropriate action for non-Muslims is to identify and just ignore what Neo-mods of Islam are producing in support of Neo-cons' totalitarian policy of global domination."

"How much longer shall our Christian voice remain silent or muffled as millions fall by the wayside "lost forever" due to the secular, steely vice squeezing out Christian truth? Still, how much longer will our Christian conscience permit this crush to continue? After all, this is the hour to rise to the news coverage challenge. We must charge forth with penetrating insight in news, honesty in detail, and relevance in content."

"Somewhat unsurprisingly, Safieh is dismissive of the current Likud-led government in Israel although he is not fond of Labour either."

"There is no Israeli legislation enforcing the convention. The convention is regarded as a basic text of international humanitarian law and has been referred to as reflecting international customary law; yet in practice no state has ever formally applied it to a given occupied territory."

"Maryland’s Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. has authorized Homeland Security grants of $230,000 to Jewish groups. The federal law intended for the grant program to fund “critical public infrastructure, such as bridges, roads, tunnels and airport facilities.” Ehrlich, a political clone of President George W. Bush, Jr., failed to seek a legal opinion on his taxpayer-funded giveaway, that appears not only unconstitutional, but also fails to pass the smell test."

"Democrats put a tight lid on demonstrations, and reduced the convention crowd to a programmed TV audience, but the Republican production topped that. Not only was their house a vast sea of blissful studio patrons, but the outside was kept cosmetically clean by a massive police action."