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Egypt's World Cup public. By Yasser Gaessa in the Egyptian weekly magazine Rose El-Youssef ; Bush's popularity ratings are cracking under the weight of the problems in Iraq. In the Saudi daily Okaz. By Salim Al-Hilali

"I agree with [former football star] Taha Ismail when he called for the imposition of the emergency law on Zamalek Club in an attempt to save it from the crisis it's going through." -- Ahmed Ayoub , Nahdet Misr

"Given that the cabinet is formed mostly of businessmen, the government must admit it should have calculated [broadcasting the World Cup] in terms of the profits it could have made." -- Emad Omar , Al-Akhbar

"Nobody knows why he waved the Israeli flag in front of the cameras while Israel is not one of the two sides or even in the competition." -- Alaa Sadeq , Al-Akhbar

"Should we be made to believe the saying that argues that Arabs resigned from history the day Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the last to hoist the banner of the Arab dream, passed away?" -- Ghassan Salama, An-Nahar

"The Arab citizen has become a mere subject of the ruler, and his/her human rights are now subject to innumerable violations." -- Adnan Hussein , Al-Rai Al-Aam

"There is no such thing as exercising democracy when conducting foreign relations. This is a myth." -- Hussein Abdul-Aziz , Al-Hayat