"If I were a Jew living anywhere around the world and had no ties to the area and had never set foot there, I would have the right to go any time I wanted and get an Israeli passport. In fact, the Israelis encourage that. I, however, am not Jewish but I was born and raised in Jerusalem, my parents, family and friends still live there and I cannot go back! I am neither a criminal nor a threat to one of the most powerful countries in the world, yet I am alienated and expelled from my own home."

"....Mike Whitney explains in a damning article titled “Bush’s Blood-Orgy in Somalia”, the real motives behind the invasion were oil and geopolitics. “Bush’s new war-lord friends in the Transitional Federal Government [TFG] have already indicated a willingness to pass a new oil law that will encourage foreign oil companies to return to Somalia.”

"The failed state of Pakistan sticks out like a sore thumb in the Kashmir saga. Despite being a nuclear power, Pakistan remains weak, divided and overrun by feudal lords. The romanticism associated with its founding during the era of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has dwindled. So too has the expectation that Muslims, particularly the exploited and vulnerable will be accorded dignity."

"In his fascination with neocons, Bloom shamelessly applauds their failed policies. Yet in contrast he attacks persons of integrity such as Noam Chomsky and Edward Said.”

"President Bush is about to end his career in disgrace. The same fate is waiting impatiently for Ehud Olmert. For politicians of this kind, it is easy to be tempted by a last adventure, a last chance for a decent place in history after all."

"Groups such as Reporters Without Borders and the International Federation of Journalists [IFJ] have compiled huge dossiers on Israeli transgression of journalists as well as documented studies on their deliberate targeting."

"Islam was accepted and welcomed all around the Mediterranean basin because it countered the rigid conformity of Roman rule by introducing the value of respecting each person's inherent human dignity and by implementing concrete precepts to make the achievement of universal human dignity a reality."

"The important question is why there is such indifference among Muslims to the destruction of the symbols and sites of Islam."