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In the Saudi paper Al-Medina, Alaa Al-Laqta says Israel is pushing the United States towards a confrontation with Syria; "It's a short telegram. It's all I can afford. Send it to Heliopolis, the presidency, the president. Just write: 'Well done'." Mustafa Hussein in Egypt's Al-Akhbar

"It is now up to [the Egyptian people] to wake up from their political slumber and go to the ballot boxes to exercise their political rights." -- Abdel-Rahman Aql, Al-Ahram

"Most American reporters currently suffer from over-inflated egos. Each one thinks he's Bob Woodward, the hero of the Watergate scandal which overthrew [president Richard] Nixon, and that they can play this same role with the presidents of the world." -- Mohamed Abdel-Moneim, Rose El-Youssef

"Mubarak should be praised for reading the general mood in a world that bluntly says that democracy, and nothing else, regulates the relationship between the leader and his people." -- Maamoun Fendi, Asharq Al-Awsat

"When political bombs explode in Cairo, the shrapnel reaches the Arab horizon." -- Al-Bayan

"The Arabs are only interested in sex and alcohol. They're fools who have contributed nothing to humanity." -- Haifa University lecturer