"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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 urge to destroy the enemy is a natural consequence of the gap between the words and deeds of the modern crusaders. The unfortunate reality remains that the Bush administration can vacate the White House due to the fear of Muslim "terror" but they cannot hide from the terror of their conscience in any security bubble."

"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."

"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."

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