"More than four years -- and at least several hundred thousand Iraqi civilian deaths -- later, the most reliable epidemiology available confirms that those claims were more than misleading. They were fundamentally out of touch with human reality."

"...in Bush's vision, Palestinians could have a state, but only after "becoming a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty." How this was to become a reality while the U.S. turned a blind eye toward Israeli behaviors that fueled Palestinian despair and anger, or how the Palestinian Authority could govern with its capacities devastated by the Israeli onslaught - on these points, the speech was silent."

"Every weapon Israel uses is paid for by us and many around the world do believe our quagmire in Iraq was pushed by Neocons whose agenda was to serve Israel and not our national interests. It is our blind support of Israel that inflames the Muslim world, as documented by many U.S. officials including President Jimmy Carter, not our freedoms and culture."

“Palestinians wanted an end to corruption --the cancer of the Arab world--and so they voted for Hamas and thus we, the all-wise, all-good West, decided to sanction them and starve them and bully them for exercising their free vote.”

-- Robert Fisk

"We may intellectually know that television is not conveying realities of life. But what moves on the screen is apt to draw us in, nonetheless. We see images of violence that look and loom real. But our media experience of that violence is unreal. We don’t experience the actual violence at all. Media outlets lie about it by pretending to convey it. And we abet the lying to the extent that we fail to renounce it."

"It is time for the Arab States and the E.U. to assert themselves more vigorously. They must see in this disaster a wake-up call: the house that Israel and U.S. policy have built is collapsing; extremists rule the streets, and not only in Gaza. And the catastrophes still to come will have far-reaching consequences. The choice is clear: it's either leadership, or mounting losses."

"The available evidence is strong that the U.S. air war is escalating -- with a surge of resulting casualties among Iraqi civilians. Their suffering and their deaths get very little coverage in the U.S. news media."

“If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 in favor of ‘Israel’ returning to the armistice lines [pre June 1967 borders] ‘Israel’ would refuse to comply with the decision.”

-- Abba Eban, June 19, 1967