"...Sharon could not welcome the Saudi initiative. This would have meant endorsing its fundamental demand for Israeli withdrawal to the June 1967 lines, as opposed to his vision of a much smaller Palestinian state."

"We have a Senator who always smilingly supports death, whether as part of American foreign policy, Israeli foreign policy, or in prisons."

"Benjamin Franklin’s words of warning resonate even more powerfully today: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

"The United States will pick perfectly reasonable, 'representative' leaders for the Palestinians, like the Iraqi legislative council. These leaders will presumably do whatever it takes to stamp out resistance to them and to U.S. and Israeli dictates. This seems to be the Bush administration version of democracy."

"Americans frequently discuss the importance of reforming the Saudi curriculum in religious colleges, as well as revamping religious textbooks used in regular schools. But the young generation has now been raised to believe in the importance of implementing Islamic law, or Sharia."

"He was an extraordinary source of illumination -- making truths obvious that otherwise would have been hidden in the haze, the fog, or the deliberate concealment by those who profited and prospered from the darkness."

"....Abdullah tried in vain to persuade President George W. Bush to deal with Sharon before attacking Saddam Hussein, hinting that if Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians could be curtailed, the Arab world would be better disposed to accept an American campaign to oust the Iraqi regime."

"On April 3, 2002, the invasion of Jenin by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) began. It lasted for nearly two horror filled weeks. If you’re Irish, think of the sacking of Drogheda, in 1649, at the hands of Oliver Cromwell. The pretext by the Ariel Sharon Gang for the collective punishment of Jenin, itself a War Crime under the Geneva Convention, was that the IOF was looking for suicide bombers."