"The neoconservatives want to transform the region into territories controlled by Arab Shias, but segregated from Sunni dominated areas. In many ways this is an offshoot of the old American plan to divide Iraq into 3 segments and to gather the Arab Shia’s under America’s leadership."

"In order for this Neocon strategy--to turn Israel into a world power not dependent on the fickle U.S. for its survival--to work, it is obvious that Iran will have to be substantially weakened. Enter the latest Israeli noises that sound like an ultimatum to the U.S. and the world to de-nuclearize Iran or else."

"Sharon is now making both peace-loving and war-like declarations - depending on the audience he is addressing."

"After reading continued reports of Israel’s illegal assaults upon the Palestinians I thought about such an event and imagined such an opportunity. Since in reality I know that prayer is such an opportunity, I decided to write my complaint in the form of a prayer. I wrote it, hoping that perhaps it might drift within earshot of the noble angels who carry prayers to God, hoping they might be impressed by its desperation and deliver it right away."

"People are led to ignore their own peril. People are more interested in the features of their next cell phone than in the fact that cell phone towers kill hundreds of millions of birds annually. People are more concerned about the cost of gasoline to operate their SUV than the impact of their SUV on the global climate. People are more worried about the cost of protecting bio-diversity than on the cost of living on a planet with reduced bio-diversity."

"The U.S. Congress has yet to name an independent investigative commission similar to the one conducted by the Sept. 11 commission to examine how the Qur’an-abuse occurred in prisons across Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, and to develop policies to prevent such offensive incidences."

"Afghanistan needs the understanding and the assistance of the international community involved in its reconstruction and recovery as well as a real sense of responsibility from its own leaders in order to be able to reaffirm its identity, while absorbing millions of its returning citizens, who’ve spent sometimes decades - or who were born – abroad. But, I am afraid, it is getting the cooperation from neither of them in this matter."

"One of the few positive side effects of the war in Iraq has been the exposure of the New York Times as an instrument of state propaganda."