It might be a very worthwhile idea for Muntazer al-Zaidi to be nominated as quickly as possible for the Nobel Peace Prize. He has hit upon an essentially non-violent, entirely harmless and wonderfully effective form of political protest and condemnation: His two shoes burst the delusional bubble of U.S. President George W. Bush where hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths did not.

NABLUS, West Bank -- As the road dips and rises through the Hebron hills, white etched with the glowing green of vineyards, the turnoff to Edna village is marked by the grey, concrete watchtower of an Israeli checkpoint. But it doesn't deter Israeli-Arab lawyer Khaled Kasab Mohammed from his quixotic mission: he has come to the West Bank to educate Palestinians about the Jewish Holocaust.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- As the debate over India's nuclear deal with the United States heats up, a totally new angle has been added to the controversy: Whether the deal is 'anti-Muslim' and if the Muslims, India's largest minority and the world's largest Muslim population, support or oppose the accord with the United States.

The Bush administration's policy of backing Benazir Bhutto as the democratic "dream" leader of Pakistan was bound to fail from the beginning: The fact that U.S. President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky, for whom "democracy" is a more universal cure-all than aspirin, all embraced Bhutto was bound to make her the Number One target of al-Qaida, especially as she was flaunting Washington's support in its own backyard.

In response to the commentary titled: {url http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070925-084135-3727r} "Commentary: In praise of regional nonviolence," {/url} by Muli Peleg.

The recent Jerusalem visit of Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the civil rights movement leader, who was murdered 40 years ago in Memphis, TN, revives the idea of nonviolent protest.

When my friends fall prey to despair, I show them a piece of painted concrete, which I bought in Berlin. It is one of the remnants of the Berlin wall, which are on sale in the city.

"War," the Prussian military theorist Karl Von Clausewitz insisted some 170 years ago, is "a mere continuation of policy by other means." What we witness in the Israel-Hezbollah war is not only a confirmation, but also a flagrant denial of basic hu

Scores of Americans who dodged Vietnam-era military conscription wrapped up a reunion on Sunday, as controversy followed them even to the remote reaches of Canada's westernmost province.

We Americans like to think of our country as a democracy when, tragically, sadly, it has become a tyranny. Just because we enjoy the right to vote and speak freely does not mean we are not trampling the liberties of other nations.