Drawn by Hamid of the Emirates' Al-Ittihad, a Gulf national, in between Camp David, Madrid, the roadmap and Oslo, deplores the "illusions that have wasted my life." ;

In the Libyan daily Azzahf Al-Akhdar, daggers plunged into a regional map provide the background to blood-stained footprints left by a man clothed in the words: "Islam, resistance, nationalism, Jihad, liberation..."