Al-Ahram Weekly Online   30 September - 6 October 2004
Issue No. 710
Press review
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Egyptian press. Bottom lines: Having a party


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Amgad Rasmi of Asharq Al-Awsat says the Unites Satates is blaming everything happening in Iraq on the Jordanian fighter ZarqawiThe Egyptian public is caught in the middle between opposition parties and the ruling National Democratic Party. By Mohsen in Nahdet Masr.

"There is amongst us a group of liberal writers constantly justifying the postponing of political reform. This is the antithesis of what it is to be a liberal." -- Osama Anwar Okasha, Nahdet Masr

"Demagogic statements will not save the Sudanese government. They only give proof that it is incapable of resolving the Darfur crisis." -- Amina El-Naqqash, Al-Ahali

"This administration has been working on provoking extreme national fears in the American public and has managed to equate opposition to its policies with treason." -- Gamil Matar, Al-Hayat

"Arab foreign ministers held a pathetic meeting in New York where they spent a full hour discussing the next Arab-Latin American summit." -- Ragheida Dorgham, Al-Hayat

"[Sharon] is the spiritual leader of the settlements, and he will dare to do what no-one has dared before him: to clash with the settlement establishment and its partisans on the extreme right." -- Yehuda Litani, Yediot Aharonot

 

 

 

 

 

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