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Clockwise from top: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat showed Arabs unable to reach middle-grounds. Al-Wafd showed Uncle Sam scolding a petulant Sharon for tearing up the Roadmap Al-Akhbar re-printed its recent cartoon depicting President Bush and Defence Secretary Rumsfeld as thugs conspiring to plant WMD in Iraq. In Al-Ahali, Prime Minister Atef Ebeid expressed his "request" to hear his own resignation.

"Statistics about anything in Egypt are impossible to know,"

Abbas El-Tarabili, Al-Wafd, 19 June.

"Iraqi women are caught between two types of terrorism: American and religious,"

Nawal El-Saadawi, Al-Hayat 19 June

"Now that the Middle East is a purely American estate there is no need to use Israel to secure American interests,"

Bassam Abu Sherif, Asharq Al-Awsat 20 June

"Philosophically, Blair said, the fact that there are no WMDs in Iraq does not mean they do not exist," Mahmoud El-Saadani, Akhbar Al-Yom, 21 June.

"Israel is now in Iraq with all its political, military, economic and commercial power. There is now nothing to stop it from exporting Iraqi oil through Haifa," Ahmed Al-Kabisi, Al-Hayat 22 June

"The government is in control of the law, prisons and press institutions," Mahmoud El-Maraghi on the stalled Press Syndicate elections, Al-Arabi, 22 June.