"Why should we intervene when our guys are bringing the place down?" By Mustafa Hussein in the Egyptian daily Al-Akhbar on criticism that the US has not intervened in the Lebanese crisis

"Lebanese blood will not go without reply... we will condemn and denounce until the last drop of their blood." By Amr Okasha in the Egyptian opposition daily Al-Wafd

The Arab political perspective. By Tamam Darwish in the UAE daily Al-Bayan




The symbol of Lebanon, the cedar tree, personifies the country and its people, and as such is receiving wartime treatment by Arab political cartoonists. From the top left clockwise: the Lebanese daily As-Safir, Al-Rai of Jordan, the UAE daily Al-Khaleej, and Al-Siyassa of Kuwait

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