:: Memo to Rummy ::

"The Malaysian Premier’s statement was nothing more then an observation of the reality, at worst one can say his interpretation of the reality was inaccurate but certainly there were no deliberate scorning of the Jewish people."

"The US's departure from and return to UNESCO is also the story of the rise to power of the American ultra-right in the beginning of the 1980s and its even more forceful resurgence at the beginning of the new century."

"Palestinians have no state or conventional army. We are subjected to curfews, expulsions, home demolitions, legalized torture, and a wide variety of human rights violations. There is a glaring contrast between the level of official responsibility and the systematic nature of the violence exchanged between Palestinian individuals and the state of Israel."

"Arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is always interesting. Being Muslims qualified us for V.I.P. treatment from the Israelis. Everything from asinine questions like "what is your occupation in the States," to the scanning of our luggage through an x-ray machines, again, after the bags were off the plane. It was as if we smuggled a bomb from Washington and didn't intend to explode it 40,000 feet over the Atlantic, but rather wait until we landed and passed through the airport before transferring the bomb to the West Bank so that someone could bring it back to Haifa or West Jerusalem and use it to blow up a bus."

"I share the IAF pilots' political outlook. I too want the Israeli occupation to end, with the vast majority of the settlements removed and a political agreement accepted by both sides."

"The next phase of the war in the Middle East, that phase which will include Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran or wherever, that phase which has been in the planning stages now for sometime, requires only a fresh gust of political wind to ignite the embers of conquest and destruction."

"The awful neo-cons won because the awful neo-libs were seen as even worse. Given a choice between lesser evils, voters can only choose evil. The greater good of the majority is meaningless, in a system based on the greater gold of a minority."