"...the irony starts where constitution of Pakistan with the basic fundamental rights is not approached by the policing agencies."

"Only a democracy can serve the hopes of Palestinians, and make Israel secure, and raise the flag of a free Palestine. A successful Palestinian democracy should be Israel's top goal as well. So Israel must freeze settlement activity, help Palestinians build a thriving economy and ensure that a new Palestinian state is truly viable, with contiguous territory on the West Bank. A state of scattered territories will not work."

"Although Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been excessively criticized, he did find out that publicly nagging countries about their human rights policies had a counterproductive effect. Many times the countries, notably China, cracked down on dissidents just to show that they would not kowtow to U.S. desires. Similarly, Bush administration pressure on Russia about its eroding freedoms has raised the hair on the back of Yuri Ushakov, the Russian ambassador to the United States. This reaction could very well morph into an “in your face” Russian government tightening the reins on its civil society."

"Numerous scholars have written volumes about how ordinary Palestinians were dispossessed in the first decades of the 20th century; do the details really matter? Then came the 1948 war, which the Israeli Jews call the War of Independence and the Palestinian Arabs call the Catastrophe, and a lot more land changed hands by force, while around three-quarters of a million people became refugees, a community now numbering several millions dispersed among the various continents. Our ingathering of the exiles led to their Babylonian exile, while according to reliable scholars more than 400 Palestinian villages were erased from view, though not from memory."

"The British elite are all in a grand tizzy! No, it’s not about Prince Charles marrying his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles. They are roaring mad over the IRA supposedly robbing a bank in British-Occupied Belfast, on Dec. 20, 2004, of $50 million dollars. The IRA denies any involvement. The hypocrisy of these British Imperialists is simply breathtaking. They “stole” Ireland from the Irish people! Now, they complain when the tables are turned!"

"We like to blame the news media for all of the "gotcha" political stories that pry too deeply into the personal lives and distant past history of candidates and therefore keep many good and qualified people out the political arena."

"It’s no state secret that Lebanon is being held hostage to give the Syrians a little leverage in dealing with the Israelis. The wisdom of Syria’s strategy would only make sense if America or Israel really cared. They don’t. Damascus can count on the Bush administration to uphold the Kissinger tradition. George Bush will demand all kinds of immediate Syrian concessions without so much as mentioning the Golan Heights."

"When an American president wants to make war, he doesn’t rely on private contributions. The U.S. warfare in Iraq has already cost taxpayers more than $150 billion, not counting the regular Pentagon budget that is now well over a billion dollars per day."