Perspectives

"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."

"The mass media has even attempted to attribute crimes to Islamic values and teachings by associating the word “Islam” and/or “Muslims”. Even though such crimes are diametrically opposed to its (Islam) teachings."

“That is not journalism..I also wonder whether your viewers and listeners really think they need to see and hear as much about this story.”

- Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications and Strategy, 10 Downing Street in a confidential letter to Greg Dyke, Director-General of the BBC, 26 June 2003.

“You can crush a man with journalism.”

- William Randolph Hearst

"...guns are only one of America’s weapons; the others are freedom, independence, and women."

"When I came home from three weeks abroad, I went to sleep. I slept a lot for the first few days. One month later, I am still tired. I am tired of the Occupation of Palestine."

"Indeed, Palestinians could react with an escalated terror campaign in Israel and abroad, and/or by dissolving the Palestinian Authority and appealing to the world to "rescue" them. The conflict would get uglier, and conceivably draw in Israel's neighbors as well."

"Israel is plagued by two very powerful symbols in its battle to recoup its image. These are the separation wall, which we Palestinians pointedly call the "apartheid wall", and the some 187 military checkpoints marking the Palestinian landscape in an immense diagram of the humiliation and suffering that touches all aspects of Palestinian life. Israel has yet to find a means of explaining these tools of possession and control to the world."

"Does it ever dawn on Palestinian leaders that they might have an easier time winning the hearts and trust of their own people if they would just be upfront about what they plan to do instead of making empty promises they do not intend to keep?"