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"How can we accept officials who oppose constitutional reform [one day] and then applaud it [the next day]? How can we applaud the decision taken one year ago not to incarcerate journalists, then watch a minister send four journalists to jail despite a presidential promise?" -- Ayman Nour, Al-Ghad

"We do not oppose foreign intervention only because it is a breach of national pride and authority but also because those [Egyptians] the [foreign interventionists] choose [to represent ] are a slap in the face of the Egyptian people." -- Abdallah Karam, Rose El-Youssef

"The report cleared all senior American commanders in Iraq of a crime which all the world followed in the press and satellite channels, a crime documented for the first time by sound and pictures." -- Abdel-Fattah Fayed, Al-Bayan

"It has become obvious that when this government sees the light of day, it will not be capable of accomplishing more than the management of the situation or perhaps just pretending to do so." -- Abdul-Wahab Badrakhan, Al-Hayat

"Most Israeli academics... support Israel's oppression of the Palestinians, or at any rate they don't oppose it." -- Sue Blackwell, Birmingham University