"The government must soon take the initiative to confront our adverse image problem, we must get something done and soon! Most importantly, we have to separate the internal requirements from the external image factor."

"After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the UN Security Council's imposition of comprehensive economic sanctions upon Iraq, the former Iraqi government assembled a food ration database, which was later expanded under the UN's so-called Oil for Food program."

"If we consider the need for love, affection, acceptance, and other types of social, psychological and even spiritual needs, it is easy to recognize our common needs. Yet, when it comes to the issue of justice, which is the primary objective of law, the issue of equality becomes more abstract, and the meaning of the word takes on some new, but subtle characteristics that are desirable not due to sameness, but do to our differences."

"...the graffiti is not there for aesthetics primarily. “The walls have become a daily notice board for us,” says Saad Hassan from the Shati’ Refugee Camp in Gaza. “It saves you the bother of reading the newspapers or leaflets being distributed here and there.”

"It is no coincidence that the choice of Switzerland as the venue for signing the accords, is the same country which was the birthplace of the first international Zionist conference over a hundred years ago that launched the idea of establishing a homeland for Jews on the land of Palestine."

"In the arena of international politics, anti-Semitism is nothing more then a cloak to enforce a pro-Israeli agenda."

"Questions of sincerity aside, Bush’s pilgrimage to Iraq may backfire in the long-term. Bush’s last macho public relations gimmick -- landing on an aircraft carrier in a military flight suit under the banner of "mission accomplished" -- surely did."

"M. Junaid Alam, a free-lance writer, recently had the opportunity to interview Norman Finkelstein, prominent and outspoken critic of Israel and son of Nazi holocaust survivors. Mr. Finkelstein is a professor of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago and the author of the authoritative and controversial books "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict" and "The Holocaust Industry."