Israel has used F-16 fighter aircraft and Apache combat helicopters to bomb Lebanese and Palestinian towns and villages. These contain significant UK components including missile triggering systems for Apaches and Head-Up Displays for F-16s.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

...never in the history of mankind, never anywhere in the realm of human relations did anything occur to compare with what was inflicted on the Jewish population of Poland... The images of what I saw in the death camp are, I am afraid, my permanent possessions. I would like nothing better than to purge my mind of these memories.

It’s getting steadily worse for Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Tens of thousands of ordinary Iraqi civilians forced to flee the chaos at home are now living in a state of misery and uncertainty. The overwhelming majority of Iraqis whom I’ve met there are frightened and concerned for the future of their children. They are struggling to hold their families together with very little means. They don’t know what’s going to happen to them. Their current situation is grim, but they say there’s no way they can go home. Home is where they saw the killing and kidnapping of loved ones, the destruction of their communities and the constant threat of violence, torture and extortion.

The 1999 Human Development Report ... noted that the assets of the world's richest three individuals exceeded the combined Gross National Products of all the least developed countries, with a population totalling 600 million people.