:: The text of a talk given by Arab Media Watch director Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi during a debate at the Jewish Centre in Cambridge on November 2, 2003 ::

"Since the end of the 19th century, the controversy about whether Islam is adaptable with modernization or not, excited the minds of different thinkers and aroused varied feelings and passions."

"The American occupation of Iraq has developed into an outrageous catastrophe."

"No matter how the government of Canada may exonerate itself, it boils down to the fact that a grand injustice is underway at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board."

"Sharon evidently thinks he can manipulate the Palestinians into a South Africa-type situation that enables Israel to survive as a Jewish state while no viable Palestinian state ever emerges."

"What is happening in this country, post 9/11, is a very disturbing saga, tarnishing the image of this nation abroad."

"If Israel is to continue narrowing the breathing room of the Palestinian Authority (half of the Palestinian people say they don't even feel the Authority's presence) then Israel will eventually achieve its goal of ridding itself of the Authority."

"In a fully documented article, a gutsy writer, educator and researcher, Ronald Bleier, blasted through the Zionist Propaganda Machine. His “In the Beginning, There Was Terror,” commentary, (‘The Link,” Vol. 36, Issue 3, July-Aug, 2003), traced the history of the founding of Israel to the present."