Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"Moore likes to play the big, innocent kid from the heartland, a kind of latter-day Spanky McFarland, only much older, happily shuffling along with a beat-up baseball cap instead of beanie, keeping the faith with values absorbed in 1950s Flint, Michigan, but asking bright-eyed, impertinent questions about serious things. He's America's backyard Socrates in baggy pants and gym shoes."

"The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion could be the ladder that world leaders, including Israeli and US, use to climb down the tree of oppression and occupation. If this opportunity is ignored, the result will only be more bloodshed and killing. The US and our Israeli neighbors must come to the realization that military occupation and security can never peacefully coexist."

"It is easy to create this confusion when one does not differentiate between “Jewish” and “Israeli”. Everything becomes mixed up: anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, criticism of Israel, criticism of Sharon. Such a mix-up is convenient for those interested in manipulations, but it not good for the Jews. “Jew” and “Israeli” are not the same."

"Liberation of Afghanistan has never been a bed of roses. When in 1747 the state of Afghanistan was formed and liberated from Empire of Great Moguls, Ahmad Shah Durrani established his rule from Mashad to Kashmir and Delhi. The second Anglo-Afghan war (1878-80), that brings Amir Abdur Rahman to the throne, a British protectorate in 1881. The British retain effective control over Kabul's foreign affairs, but after third Anglo Afghan War in 1919, the Treaty of Rawalpindi gave full independence to Afghanistan."

"In America, the obsession with Islam as a symbol of all that runs counter to Western ideals and Western ambitions did not begin with September 11. It began almost a decade ago, when Samuel Huntington wrote a book in which he argued that the "clash of civilizations" -- namely Islam and the West -- was inevitable."