Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"For Green Party activists and their candidate, the apparent benefits of a presidential run may include the media coverage, which -- however inadequate and slanted -- still beats being ignored."

"By no stretch of the imagination does this accord meet “the basic aspirations” of the Palestinian people. “What can I tell my grandchildren?” asked Hikmat Adwan, 60, a Gaza resident who said his family was driven from its village in 1948. “That I gave up my rights? That I gave up my land?” (New York Times, Dec. 3)"

"Israeli conventional and unconventional arms superiority in the Middle East will trigger a new phase in the regional arms race. Many Arab states will feel forced to pursue non-conventional mass destruction capabilities, such as chemical and biological weapons, to try to adjust the imbalance of power in the region."

"Washington wants to use India as a counterweight to China, which it sees as its main competitor in Asia. It also wants to establish military bases in India. This became apparent recently from a 153-page Pentagon report, "Indo-US Military Relationship: Expectations and Perceptions", prepared by analyst Juli A Macdonald for US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld."

"Within a few short years, this balance is liable to change dramatically. As early as 2004, Iran will apparently reach a "point of no return": that phase in its nuclear weapons development wherein it is no longer dependent on the external supply of technology and can construct a bomb using its own resources."

"Water scarcity has serious implications on self sufficiency in food and avoidance of famine. There is room for more efficient usage of water, we [Pakistan] can certainly learn from other countries with far less water resources."

"The late, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir hatefully barked that the Palestinians “never existed.” William Kristol acts the same way towards them. The next time he appears on TV, watch him very closely. He reminds me of “HAL,” the computer from the space film “2001,” with no soul, heart or feelings."

"The road to confidence in international relations is a two-way street. If western countries and their allies consider Iran a potential threat to their interests (which, of course, would be gravely mistaken), Iran, reciprocally, considers some western countries and their allies, as a result of their behavior, potential threats to Iran's security and national sovereignty."

"Nablus’ residents largely put the responsibility for implementing the law and restoring public order on the Palestinian Authority, which, however, doesn’t yet seem capable of doing so. What most fear is that the phenomenon will spread and more and more people will be forced to take the law into their own hands."

"It is time for the whole world--not just the United States--to start imagining what a nuclearized Middle East will look like. Could western diplomacy keep such a region from going over the edge?"

"More disturbing was the news of US mimicking the 36 year old Israeli occupation in tactics. We only hope that the US and/or its puppet Iraqi government will not be managing Iraq for 36 years."

"It seems that before cloning can go any further, the global community should rein in this enterprise if not to consider the ethical implications involved but more importantly to protect the subjects of its experimentation."

"If Israel were required to obey the law and abandoned its illegal occupations, the position of Palestinian terrorists would be instantly undercut. Funding for Palestinian terrorism, such as it is, would dry up. And it is very clear that Palestinian support for violent resistance would plummet in the advent of an Israeli withdrawal."

"Israel’s proposals are far below the minimum acceptable to the Palestinians. Even the “virtual” Geneva accord, which bespeaks a better deal for the Palestinians than the rejected Barak proposals of Camp David and Taba, failed to gain strong Palestinian endorsement."

"As I look across the political landscape, courage and independence have almost completely disappeared from politics."

"In order to break the cycle of violence, the idea of one side crushing the other side must be removed. Israeli thinking that yet one more assassination will cause the Palestinians to crumble and the Palestinian belief that one more suicide attack will cause the Israelis to raise the white flag have proved to be futile."

"Something is rotten in Denmark", Shakespeare once wrote, but if the United States of America existed in Shakespeare's day, he could have said the same about us."

"Apart from the immorality of U.S. actions, imitating anything Israeli in an Arab country is horrendous public relations, which is likely to make the population even more hostile."

"Although they are classified as weapons of mass destruction, and the US makes much of their terrorist potential, history suggests that the real value of nuclear weapons is in having them as a deterrent. Certainly the Cold War was much cooler than it might have been had one of the two side had an advanage in terms of nuclear weapons."

"A major flaw of the book is that Manji has a tendency to jump from one story to the other, without rationalizing the need and the context for doing so."