"In due time the American people will come to understand the folly of such double standard, their complicity with their taxes and vetoes of Israel's flaunting of might upon millions of hapless civilians, their alienation from the rest of the world due to Israel's atrocities and the power of the elite Jewish lobby who've hijacked American values and civil liberties for the sake of Israel."

"International law and the historical precedent of many nations sanction the right of a people suffering from colonial oppression to take up arms in their freedom struggle. Why should it be different in the case of Palestinians?"

:: The text of a talk given by Arab Media Watch director Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi during a debate at the Jewish Centre in Cambridge on November 2, 2003 ::

"Since the end of the 19th century, the controversy about whether Islam is adaptable with modernization or not, excited the minds of different thinkers and aroused varied feelings and passions."

"The American occupation of Iraq has developed into an outrageous catastrophe."

"Despite their relatively small populations these two states loom larger in presidential elections because the decision made by their voters will determine the direction of the entire contest."

"No matter how the government of Canada may exonerate itself, it boils down to the fact that a grand injustice is underway at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board."

"Sharon evidently thinks he can manipulate the Palestinians into a South Africa-type situation that enables Israel to survive as a Jewish state while no viable Palestinian state ever emerges."