"Over the years we have become accustomed to the idea that “US. pressure” means declarations that have no muscle behind them. But suddenly the words have acquired new meaning. When the U.S. really does exert pressure, no Israeli leader would dare defy its injunctions (and certainly not Netanyahu). And so we have pulled out of Gaza. If the U.S. continues to lose ground in Iraq, maybe we will be forced to pull out of the West Bank as well."

"If anyone has ever deluded themselves into thinking that Israeli violence is simply a reaction to Palestinian violence, they are now seeing the truth before their eyes."

"Empires are never benevolent enterprises. Empires are expressions of force, usually for reasons of accumulating wealth and power. Empires take lives from their own citizens and from those they rule."

"Washington's move to acknowledge India's nuclear status and opt for nuclear cooperation would have been a wise move had it covered Pakistan, the other nuclear power as well. But the fact that Israel and India are considered ‘kosher’ nuclear states compared to Pakistan reinforce the reality of a selective global non-proliferation policy."

"Supporting dictators belies 'progress' on democracy and human rights."

"This complicity in Sharon’s designs may be remembered as one of history’s most foolish and immoral appeasements. We must demand that our leaders reject Sharon’s extortion of their silence while he tries to kill the Palestinian state in the womb and “Judaize” the Holy City of the three Mosaic religions."

"Israel has confiscated some 20,000 dunums of Palestinian-owned land -- more than one third of the area of Arab East Jerusalem -- for the construction of Jewish settlements. In 2001 alone, the Israeli Construction and Housing Ministry earmarked more than $5 million for Jewish settler security in AEJ."

"Cindy Sheehan’s gallant anti-War vigil outside of the ranch of our half-demented President, George W. Bush, Jr., in Crawford Texas, is drawing massive support from around the country. It is also attracting pro-war snakes, like that former “Nation” magazine ranter, Christopher Hitchens. A Brit, who comes across as an insufferable Tory, he accused Sheehan of trying to “ventriloquize the dead” and of spouting off about “sinister piffle.”