Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"The decision to award the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, the intrepid Iranian human rights lawyer and former judge, took everyone by surprise -- not least Ebadi herself."

"But even if Damascus shuts down the bases of these militant organizations--Hamas and Islamic Jihad--their violent anti-Israel activities in the occupied territories and in Israel would hardly be reduced; nor would the Israeli-Palestinian impasse be resolved."

"One of the major lobbies that leads the mainstream media is the corporations, especially those that produce weapons."

"The only way to let the air out of the resistance is to quickly turn Iraq back to the Iraqis and withdraw U.S. forces. The violence arises primarily as a reaction to the invasion and occupation by a foreign superpower."

"Now it is the turn of Muslims to learn effectively how to lower the spread of anti-Islam, whose roots are, in fact, from the same sources as anti- (Jewish) Semitism. For if they do not work hard to combat anti-Islam and expose those who for religious or political reasons are advancing it, the practice of anti-Islam will go on and on ... and on."

"Because the United States is engaged not only in a war on terror, but an intensive effort to engage the Muslim world through a public diplomacy campaign, Boykin's remarks have caused real concern."

"The three Ds of attack propaganda are: Denial, Denigration and Dishonesty. All are present here."

"It is impossible not to feel the malaise in the US-Turkish relationship, in respect of the question of Iraq."

"Sunday’s pin-point attack on a US military helicopter in which sixteen soldiers died, coupled with the high cost of military occupation in Iraq and the mounting campaign within the US to bring troops back home is spreading panic throughout the White House."

"Of course America’s incapacity for introspection makes bin Ladin’s observations a moot point. And that’s the worrisome part—even the tiny US antiwar movement is critical mostly because American troops are dying, not because of the morally repugnant nature of the whole Iraq enterprise."

"Many Israeli schools and homes, of course, will continue to churn out soldiers who look at Palestinians as sub-human -- as they have for decades."

"A recent incident in Lahore where a policeman on duty stopped a car, ostensibly having tinted windscreen, has evoked a lot of comment, most of it out of motivation and/or plain ignorance of the facts."

"Now that Friedman has joined the neo-con cabal, he openly declares his support of this ‘war of choice’."

"Text of President Bush's news conference in the basement of White House Laundry room. Ahmed Amr transcribed this text. He has hearing problems and the dryers were running, but this is what he thought he heard."

"The Palestinians, of course, suffer more than anyone else."

"Gov. Ehrlich’s refusal to meet with Sharon would speak volumes. By doing so, he would be taking a stand against the fascist nature of the present Israeli regime, under the hawkish Sharon (Amnesty.org). The gross militancy of this Israel government is so bad that in a recent poll, authorized by the European Commission, a majority of Europeans, said that, "Israel presented the biggest threat to world peace" (10/30/03, EUobserver.com)."

"American government is doing nothing for the global poverty, ignorance and education."

"To accept suffering is to accept defeat. The weak cannot afford that."

"Between the time that the Partition Plan was signed (Nov. 29, 1947) and Israel was proclaimed (May 15, 1948) zionist forces had dispossessed more than 300,000 Palestinians. By December, they had seized 78 percent of Palestine and more than 400 Arab villages. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine put the total figure of Palestinian refugees at 726,000."

The American people deserve to have a president who will always put the national interest first. If you’re honest with yourself, (and I hope that you will be), there is no way to justify this Iraq madness as being in “our” national interest. You have been conned by slick operatives from “Big Oil,” the “Military Industrial Complex,” and, particularly, by the “Israel First Brigade.”