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In Al-Hayat, Habib Hadad portrays the battle of Falluja as one in which both sides are digging graves; It's an American election but Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is somehow in the centre of things -- by Mahmoud of Egypt's October magazine.

"The Bush administration insisted on invading Iraq for reasons which turned out to be unfounded." -- Salah Montasser, Al-Ahram

"People do not have time for protracted explanations of what this minister and that minister intends to do. They want concise statements about what the ministers have actually achieved." -- SuleimanGuwda, Al-Wafd

"Arafat will not be the same again after this illness," -- Mohamed Al-Ashehab, Al-Hayat

"Bush Jr is the brave and principled leader who has honoured his post-11 September promise to uproot terrorism from the planet, no matter what the price." --Shamlan Youssef Al-Issa, Al-Ittihad

"We will withdraw from Gaza only because we did not succeed in impressing the significance of our absolute superiority on the Palestinian consciousness." -- Yaron London, Yediot Aharonot