Bottom Lines

"We have to be wary of the trap that Israel is setting for Egypt... we should not downplay Israeli threats and work to abort the Israeli plan which seeks to engulf the whole region in flames." -- Abbas El-Tarabili, editor-in-chief, Al-Wafd

"The problem is that some take the liberty to restrict freedom of speech in our country and deny the right of a free media to its citizen." -- Al-Arabi

"If we are in a country that respects the rights of citizens, the government would have been dismissed after a man named Ibrahim El-Dessouki Abdel-Dayem committed suicide because he could not afford to buy his children what they needed for the new school year." -- Abdullah El-Sinawi, editor-in-chief, Al-Arabi

"It is the Europeans who persecuted the Jews and burned six million of them alive. It is the Europeans who confiscated the properties of Jews. And it was the Europeans who then decided to export the problem to the Middle East where Muslims, Jews and followers of all religions were living for years in peace and dignity." -- Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief, Al-Quds Al-Arabi

"The Israelisation of US foreign policy, in theory and in practice, and the consequent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments prevailing in the US administration, have encouraged Israeli aggressiveness and indifference towards international law and UN resolutions." -- Aref Al-Agha, Al-Thawra

"It is naive to think that when Bush leaves the White House, the new president will immediately opt for a more even-handed foreign policy approach that would do justice to Arabs and Muslims." -- Abdel-Rahman Al-Rashid, Asharq Al-Awsat