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Lebanon cries for Rafiq Al-Hariri. Habib Haddad in the Saudi-funded Al-Hayat; "Citizens should thank their lucky stars. In the upcoming five-year plan they won't even see meat." In Egypt's Al-Wafd, this is Amr Okasha's take on the paltry 10 kilos of meat a year subsidised by the government.

"The minister's arguments reflect an obvious ignorance regarding the condition of the Egyptian people. He considers their housing problems from the window of his centrally heated palace. -- Yasser El-Zayat, Sawt Al-Umma

"At the end of the day, those who are weak and broke get only the leftovers and crumbs even if they attempt to dress them up with bright colours and parade them in loud music." -- Fahmi Howeidi, Al-Ahram

"As usual, Sharon received a hefty price in advance, in Egyptian and all other Arab currencies, and left with a promise to send the commodities he was paid for. But the expected goods soon turned out to be a mere hope if not a mirage." -- Khaled El-Shami, Al-Quds Al-Arabi

"Who knows what will happen next? My worst fear is that there will be a booby-trapped car somewhere. This is not impossible as some would like to think." -- Ghassan Tweini, An-Nahar

"What will be left in Palestinian hands will not be a state or even a statelet, but merely a few plots of land, all that is left for them after decades of land confiscation for the purpose of building settlements." -- Yehuda Litani, Yediot Aharonot