Bottom Lines

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Walled in

"Iran's reformists may have lost this election round but the victory of the conservatives will ultimately depend on how they negotiate vital international issues confronting them." -- Fahmy Howeidy, Al-Ahram

"I do not think African countries have any reservations about the sweeping changes Libya has undertaken in its foreign policy. This is a sovereign matter for Libya which concerns no-one but itself." Ibrahim Se'da, Akhbar Al-Yom

"To suggest that serious reform measures are difficult to undertake due to developments in Iraq and Palestine has become both unacceptable and unconvincing." --Al-Quds Al-Arabi

"It has become totally unacceptable to maintain an [Arab League] charter that was adopted in 1945 ... it has become incompatible with the developments of today's world." -- Al-Bayan

"The sense that all the evils of the world, from Cuba to Indonesia, have come together particularly for the purpose of attacking any Israeli act only reinforces the deep-rooted experience that we stand alone and, therefore, we are right." -- Ofer Shelah, Yediot Aharonot

"Shall we who have split the atom, who went all the way to Entebbe, now go back to the Green Line?" -- Eitan Haber, Yediot Aharonot