"Israel should be made to accept an international presence on the ground in order to protect Palestinians from military incursions and encroachment, and Israelis from acts of terror. Not only would this be far more effective than the wall that Israel is building, but it could also help to ensure the two-state solution essential for peace, which the “security fence” in effect denies."

"Contrary to Chirac and Ferry's claims that the proposed law only affirms the present doctrine of laïcité, the measure would mark a significant departure from prior legislation. If previous laws sought to protect the religious neutrality of the state and "religious freedom," the new proposal explicitly fights against the "communitarianism" and "inequality" that the headscarf has come to represent in France."

"There is no sign whatsoever that Arafat intends to take steps to end this anarchy. On the contrary, he views it as a threat against Israel that Palestinian society is liable to collapse into its waiting arms."

"From now on, Islam is both an identity and a crime. It makes a person’s citizenship and his rights totally irrelevant. Eighty percent of the Jews in Germany held German citizenship. The so-called racial profiling in the US is nothing but a refined term for advanced racism. The US Supreme Court has legalised detention of thousands of Muslims on mere suspicion."

"Oppressors always draw attention to the “savagery” of the “uncivilized” natives: whether natives are blacks fighting against apartheid in South Africa, Native American resistance to white colonization, or Algerian resistance to French colonization. Colonizers always justify their actions by focusing on the extreme examples of the most cruel and violent attacks by the natives (e.g. burning people alive in South Africa, scalping and killing white settler women and children in North America, Algerian massacre of French settlers). Extreme violence and terrorism are the expected tail of a bell shaped curve of resistance, which continues until its underpinnings are tackled (the injustices of discrimination, occupation and colonization)."

"There are lessons to be learnt from this mishandling of the ‘scientists’ issue on the domestic front. Inter-institutional coordination is critical as is the need to communicate credibly with the public."

"The student movement has been burned one too many times by violent repression, as well as the inability of the reformers to protect them, said the statement. "Unless elections lead to systematic and fundamental change they will only legitimize autocracy," it continued."

"As the big powers of the world scramble for a foothold in Central Asia China uses it's growing economic clout in the region to put some more nails in the coffin of one of it's ethnic minorities."