"The problem with the Middle East is not a lack of democracy, but a lack of justice."

"The Palestinian narrative has been systematically excluded from Western discourse."

"The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony."

"The struggle for justice is a universal struggle, a struggle that transcends borders and cultures."

"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."