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"The bottom line is that terrorism is always wrong. There can be no provocation to justify attacks on innocent civilians. Retaliation, revenge, or pre-emption are not legitimate excuses. Who carried out the first act is not important. Most often the religious affiliation of the perpetrator is not important except in their own warped minds."

"Today, 2/3rds of the nearly 9 million Palestinians live as refugees or displaced people. Others live under apartheid and/or surrounded by walls and fences in shrinking reservations. The US government continues to give Israel billions of our tax money."

"As Israelis and Palestinians in today’s reality we are put to a big test; we are both rooted in this land and, if God is what I was brought up to believe He is, then it is preposterous to believe that He would want to give land to a certain people at the expense of another, and He certainly would not want to punish a people for controlling another. God is neither a real estate agent nor a punisher; He is much bigger than that. It is up to us to reach a mutual understanding and solve the conflict that we, human beings, have prolonged."

"Brownback is just one of many who are poised to take over this country. They won this battle. They must not be allowed to win the war."

"The Romans used to behave the same way when they held sway."

"If one can summarize “Beyond Chutzpah” in one sentence, it would be this: Finkelstein leaves no stone unturned when setting out to prove the misuse of anti-Semitism."

Get ready for another murderous rampage based upon a pile of definite maybes, fabrication and innuendo, and propped up by a palace press that places the need to frame an Arab régime above honest reporting. When, not if, the Bush junta is tried for war crimes, I hope more than a few reporters and editors are also in the dock. After all, they make war crimes possible.

On a sidewalk in front of the White House, on Oct. 26, 2005, anti-war activists, Cindy Sheehan, John Bruhns and Juan M. Torres, Sr., and others from groups, like “Veterans for Peace,” gathered at a Vigil to protest the conflict. The toll of U.S. military dead had just reached the grim 2,000 mark. Sheehan predicted the war will be another Vietnam, unless the people can bring it to an end.