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Anti-clockwise from top: as Al-Rai's cartoonist saw it, both Abu Mazen and Sharon were courting Condoleezza Rice; Al-Ahali's cartoonist depicts a garbage collector knocking on the doors of the cabinet asking whether they'll give their garbage to him, or to a foreign company; Al-Wafd's cartoonist shows an MP dreaming of voting sessions even during the parliamentary recession

"We Arabs remain prisoners of our past differences and present crises,"

Ismail Sabry Abdallah, Al-Ahali, 25 June

"None of that which was determined at the Davos Summit in Amman can be implemented as long as Israel transgresses on Arab rights,"

Galal Doweidar, Al-Akhbar, 26 June

"The image of the Arabs is bad, and it is getting worse because the Arab regimes are surrendering to the Americans, tightening the noose around their people's necks, pursuing normalisation with the Israeli enemy, giving up the most basic of legal rights, fighting against all that is Arab and Muslim, shaving off beards and lending legitimacy to the ugly face of American occupation (in Iraq) and Israeli occupation (in Palestine)."

Abdel-Bari Otwan, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 27 June

"Our maverick government refuses to legitimise democratic rights, thinking that the limited ones we do have emanated from the ruler's bounty," Salah Eissa, Al-Wafd, 28 June

"[I]n this middle stage of possibilities, a question needs to be posed to Israel, as well as to Hamas and Islamic Jihad: is the success of this trial period on the cards, or are we about to see its failure, with the blame being placed on the other side?"

Hazem Saghiya, Al-Hayat, 1 July

"The subduing of the demonstrations in Iran is the quiet before the storm of the sixth anniversary of the student uprisings," Amir Tahri, Asharq Al-Awsat, 1 July