"At this early juncture, polling about the 2008 Presidential race tells very little about what will happen next November. What has been quite revealing in this poll, however, is its documentation of a growing trend within the Arab American community in terms of political party identification; specifically, the precipitous decline in support for the Republican Party."

“We shall never recognize the right of any power to rob us of our land and deny us our national rights. We shall never recognize the legitimacy of a Zionist state created on our soil in order to atone for somebody else’s sins or solve somebody else’s problem. But if you are willing to accept the principle of a long-term truce, we are prepared to negotiate the terms.”

-- Khalid Meshal, Hamas's leader-in-exile

"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."