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Warning: To all migrating birds. Please return where you came from. Thank you. Compliments of the Department of Immigration. Kamal El-Sawi in the Egyptian weekly magazine Sabah Al-Kheir The newest Abu Ghraib pictures. By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab, London-based daily Al-Hayat

"Israel wants to put a foot in the mouth of anyone who would dare criticise its policies." -- Farahat Hossameddin, Al-Ahram

"Israel has become addicted to the policy of take and no give." -- Fahmi Howeidi, Al-Ahram

"Only when the nation comes to recognise [it has been insulted] will it regain its sense of pride." -- Ahmed Abdel-Hafez, Al-Arabi

"The presidency of the Legislative Council was transferred to Hamas without a battle between those who have been at the head of political Palestinian activity for decades [Fatah], and the movement which used weapons and resistance as the only way to liberate Palestine." -- Al-Watan

"International pressure increases each day on the Palestinians as punishment for the best democratic experiment which the region has witnessed throughout the last decade." -- Riad Al-Malki, Al-Ayam

"We want to see Hamas shift from an opposition movement and one critical of other parties to a viable movement that believes in the peace process." -- Ahmed Al-Rabei, Asharq Al-Awsat