Middle East

"The Romans used to behave the same way when they held sway."

"If one can summarize “Beyond Chutzpah” in one sentence, it would be this: Finkelstein leaves no stone unturned when setting out to prove the misuse of anti-Semitism."

Get ready for another murderous rampage based upon a pile of definite maybes, fabrication and innuendo, and propped up by a palace press that places the need to frame an Arab régime above honest reporting. When, not if, the Bush junta is tried for war crimes, I hope more than a few reporters and editors are also in the dock. After all, they make war crimes possible.

On a sidewalk in front of the White House, on Oct. 26, 2005, anti-war activists, Cindy Sheehan, John Bruhns and Juan M. Torres, Sr., and others from groups, like “Veterans for Peace,” gathered at a Vigil to protest the conflict. The toll of U.S. military dead had just reached the grim 2,000 mark. Sheehan predicted the war will be another Vietnam, unless the people can bring it to an end.

"How different America and the world would be if, after the misbegotten invasion, instead of fencing off the Palestine Hotel and in essence fencing off Iraq from the American presence, President Bush had had the "love and wit to win," and drawn a circle that had drawn the Iraqi people in. He didn't, and young Americans and their families, and Iraqis, continue to pay the horrible price."

"The efforts and imported vision of democracy in the Middle East by the US and the EU will not gather any storm after the victory of referendum in Iraq. The ratios of insurgencies will be increased and tough time is ahead for the common people of Iraq."

"This ignorance of reality made me really sad. Are we really too busy to be concerned with our future welfare? Today the headlines read, “US Military Deaths Reach 2,000."

"One must realise that the establishment of a tent city to ward off winter is simply untenable. With the chilly weather descending on these affected areas there is no provision for heating as there is no liquidised gas in the region. While these tents will solve the privacy issues which the people, especially women, of this area are facing, providing tents be costly. It will also expose people to many dangers such as accidental fires. Therefore, a more rational and workable idea would be to relocate the population to relatively warmer areas of the country on a temporary basis."