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"So much time has passed since the elections yet nothing new has happened in the country." Egyptians await impatiently -- the vote was on 7 September -- for presidential campaign promises to be kept. In the Egyptian independent paper Nahdet Misr by Walid Taher Palestinian killing Palestinian. By Mustafa Rahma of the UAE daily Al-Ittihad in the wake of the assassination of Moussa Arafat

"Perhaps the momentous corruption of the Mubarak regime will be the beginning of its end. It [corruption] has resulted in the erosion of the state, breaking the latter up into secluded islands of corrupters protected by thugs and assisted by some journalists and media people." -- Mohamed Abul-Ghar, Al-Arabi

"People have no faith in the future. They do not believe things will get better. And they fear the unknown, so much so that they wish for things -- as black and despondent as they are -- to continue." -- Wael El-Ibrashi, Sawt Al-Umma

"I believe that within an active political framework these [the current] dead political parties must disappear." -- Hazem Abdel-Rahman , Al-Ahram

"Where was extremism manufactured: in the schools where millions of moderate individuals graduate? Or in the mosques where they pray without killing anyone?" -- Abdul-Wahab Badrakhan, Al-Hayat

"Just as we do feasibility studies in politics or economics, we must undertake feasibility studies in religion and see how viable some of our mosques are." -- Jaber Habib Jaber , Asharq Al-Awsat