Here's a cool website about the Middle East conflict from the perspectives of both Israelis and Palestinians.

And here's a quote about Iraq:
The obvious difference between Iraq and the U.S. is that this nation is a democracy. That means that we U.S. citizens are responsible for the behavior of G.W. Bush in ways that the people of Iraq are not responsible for Saddam
Hussein. There is good reason to believe that Bush, in his highly personal,
irrational, and thoroughly Manichaean campaign against Hussein, has set the very world on a course toward disaster. No one can change that course but us.
- James Carroll