"We had spent more than 50 years of our struggle issuing grandiose slogans saying we want Palestine from the sea to the river. Things had to change. Slogans such as a unified Palestinian democratic state had to be abandoned. Talk about a bi-national state or a multi-ethnic state all proved incongruous with a realistic, if just and comprehensive settlement"

"The disintegration of Iraq and the effort to rebuild it according to US dictates are intended to disable Iraq's potential as a leading Arab country for quite some time to come. This, in turn, is expected to impact negatively on the Arab-Israeli conflict"

(photo: Mohamed Abul-Einin)