"Arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is always interesting. Being Muslims qualified us for V.I.P. treatment from the Israelis. Everything from asinine questions like "what is your occupation in the States," to the scanning of our luggage through an x-ray machines, again, after the bags were off the plane. It was as if we smuggled a bomb from Washington and didn't intend to explode it 40,000 feet over the Atlantic, but rather wait until we landed and passed through the airport before transferring the bomb to the West Bank so that someone could bring it back to Haifa or West Jerusalem and use it to blow up a bus."

"I share the IAF pilots' political outlook. I too want the Israeli occupation to end, with the vast majority of the settlements removed and a political agreement accepted by both sides."

"The next phase of the war in the Middle East, that phase which will include Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran or wherever, that phase which has been in the planning stages now for sometime, requires only a fresh gust of political wind to ignite the embers of conquest and destruction."

"The awful neo-cons won because the awful neo-libs were seen as even worse. Given a choice between lesser evils, voters can only choose evil. The greater good of the majority is meaningless, in a system based on the greater gold of a minority."

"For too long Muslims have let themselves to be ruled by clowns and despots, whose allegiance is mostly to those who are determined to cripple their people in all respects."

"The document imposes several limitation on Palestinian sovereignty that may impair the feeling of equality. Also, without seeing the detailed maps it is hard to say how much Beilin wants to swap. It seems that there is a certain disparity between their and our maps."

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."

- Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]

"What the Iraqi people appear to be telling us is that they have hope for the future, but they want the help of their neighbors more than that of the U.S."