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Alaa Rasmi in Syria's Tishreen: decisions made at the Arab government level constantly come to nothing; Likening Al-Hariri's assassination to an earthquake, Mohamed Omar portrays the Lebanese as holding on for dear life as Arab unity threatens to be swept away in Egypt's Akher Saa

"Politicians in any government are not above the law. If they violate [the law] then they should be investigated." -- Abdallah Kamal, Rose El-Youssef

"All our days [have] started resembling each other. All the newspapers seem the same and even government officials now look alike. In all this time nothing has changed except the size of corruption which has grown from a fat cat to an elephant." -- Ahmed El-Hosari, Al-Ahali

"We are sorry to use expressions [freedom and democracy] that were monopolised by George W Bush, however, we really mean them -- unlike Bush and his obsessed assistants." Abdel-Wahab Badrakhan, Al-Hayat

"The Syrian troops and their intelligence, which count how many times we breathe, were present in Lebanon but were unable to prevent the assassination or protect themselves from the grave consequences of such a crisis." -- Ghassan Tweini, An-Nahar

"Will they [settlers] use the next five months to organise and prepare to build their new future and new homes, or will they prepare to resist the evacuation and deny the inevitable outcome?" -- Yael Gavritz, Yediot Aharonot