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The new Egyptian daily Rose El-Youssef alludes to rigged elections that use the names of dead people to pad up vote counts. "Enough tears for the deceased. The elections are near and for sure he'll be voting in one of the polling stations." By Amr Selim; Democracy and the other opinion. By Tammam Darwish in the daily Al-Siyassa of Kuwait

"By deploying its troops along the Philadelphi corridor Egypt has aborted Israel's attempts to set up its own troops there and build barricades like a waterway and an electric fence." -- Rose El-Youssef

"After the scenes which took place in the Gaza settlements, the Palestinian leadership must not sign any agreement not clearly stipulating that settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem are to be removed." -- Abdel-Aal Al-Baquri , Al-Arabi

"If it is the question of corruption that is foremost on the public's mind, then it is the NDP candidate President Mubarak who must make it the foremost priority of his electoral campaign." -- Makram Mohamed Ahmed, Al-Ahram

"The biggest losers are the Sunnis because they will be lost in a geographical environment that is scarce in oil with few water resources and will not have borders to any neighbouring countries." -- Mohamed Al-Rumeihi , Al-Bayan

"Did the US fight in Iraq to establish an Iranian-style Islamic republic?" -- Jihad Al-Khazen , Al-Hayat

"Some Iraqis remember the UN economic sanctions inflicted on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait as the good old days." -- Al-Bayan