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Amgad Rasmi in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat drew Israelis and Palestinians "diverging", one with the "Road" the other with the "Map". In Al-Wafd, Amr Okasha depicted Israeli PM Sharon giving instructions to "remove the sign, not the settlement itself". Akhbar Al-Yom's Mustafa Hussein drew the "common man" wishing PM Atef Ebeid a lengthy term in office, where he will typically monopolise all authority
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"No one can erase basic Palestinian principles." -- Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Al-Hayat 8 June
"God help Abu Mazen, for if he wins Bush over he will lose some Palestinians, and if he appeases his supporters he will lose Bush." -- Jihad Al-Khazen, Al-Hayat 9 June
"Bush succeeded in enforcing a new formula at Sharm El-Sheikh, substituting 'land for peace' for relinquishing terrorism in return for a virtual Palestinian state, with no real existence in terms of space or demography." -- Sanaa El-Said, Al-Wafd, 6 June.
"Sharon is offering Abu Mazen [Theodor] Herzl's peace plan."-- Selim Nassar, Al-Hayat 7 June
"It would be wrong for the Arabs to base their calculations on the premise that this is not a time for resistance... and that we must go along with the American current." -- Nabil Zaki, Al-Ahali, 4 June
"Finding the weapons of mass destruction is also a moral issue." -- Editorial, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 8 June
"Egypt's [proposed] Commission for Human Rights must be able to withstand pressures aimed at preventing it from protecting the rights of individuals, and groups, from violation." -- Head of the Canadian-Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, Nabil Abdel-Malik, Al-Ahram, 7 June.
