Bottom Lines

"Prime Minister Atef Ebeid's talk of 'billions of dollars in state revenues' must surely provoke the ordinary citizen who every day suffer reality." -- Said Sonbol, Al-Akhbar

"There will not be any real political reform under the current regime and time will prove it." -- Amin Youssri, Al-Arabi

"Since every empire claims that it is advocating a certain ideology, the US chose to claim that it was coming to the Middle East to advocate democracy." -- Saleh Beshir, Al-Hayat

"As long as the Arab world has a memory, Al-Hurra, despite its hi-tech team and rich resources, will fail to change the American image in the Arab mind." -- Aicha Sultan, Al-Bayan

"If Sharon has indeed tortured and murdered Arabs, he should be re-elected." -- Israeli Web site contributor