The Divine Right of Bush
"What is most astonishing about this whole public relations disaster is the complete lack of condemnation from world leaders and internationals organizations. Not a word of censure from the United Nations, the European Union, Russia or even America itself."
The Israel Defense Forces’ moral code of warfare
"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."
Roosters at The Checkpoint
"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."
The Palestinian resistance
"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."
US return to UNESCO
"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."
