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Arab to Arab: 'No to occupation.' 'No to recognition.' 'No to normalisation.' To the West: 'We don't mind.' 'No opposition.' 'No way out.' By Hamed Najeeb of the daily Al-Ittihad of the UAE; 'After a thorough investigation of the ferry disaster, we have discovered why it sank -- the sea did it.' Amr Okasha in the Egyptian opposition Al-Wafd

"The latest [ferry] catastrophe proves that the victims in all such cases are the poor." -- Gamal El-Ghitani, Akhbar Al-Adab

"We are not murderers... We are prepared to be punished if it is ascertained that we are to blame." -- Amr Mamdouh Ismail, Nahdet Misr

"Our rulers made us fight with cheese instead of fighting the American and Israeli occupation [of Arab lands]." -- Abdel-Wahab El-Messeiri, Al-Karama

"Those who drew the cartoons would have inevitably ended up in the courts had they instead drawn a Jewish character like Shylock, with black clothes and a big crooked nose, carrying explosives, on a suicide mission." -- Jihad Al-Khazen, Al-Hayat

"This is exactly the sort of reaction we fear when an attack occurs on Western soil." -- Abdul-Rahman Hussein, Al-Hayat

"To defend the prophet by setting afire churches and attacking tourists and diplomats is completely against the prophet's guidance." -- Sayed Would Abah, Asharq Al-Awsat