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"Strange, are the cartoons in the newspape r so funny?" "No, I'm laughing at the official Arab statement s." By Amr Selim in the weekly Egyptian magazine Rose El-Youssef; The "new Middle East" will produce a flock of submissive sheep. In the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. By Habib Haddad

"I am confident that the day will come when I see all those leaders who committed and supported the Israeli massacres in Lebanon... standing before an international court to be tried for their atrocious crimes against humanity." -- Galal Dwidar, Al-Akhbar

"It is the UN itself that has exempted Israel from all the rules of international law." -- Sayed Yassin, Al-Qahira

"At the official level there were many more dignified positions that Egypt could have taken without having to get into a war with Israel." -- Hassan Nafaa, Al-Masry Al-Youm

"The war will probably end when Lebanon in its entirety is in complete ruins." -- Emile Khouri , An-Nahar

"Olmert's crimes in Lebanon, which include killing civilians, knocking down crossings and destroying Lebanese infrastructure, are more horrific than those of Milosovic." -- Buthayna Shaaban , Asharq Al-Awsat

"The only thing that the Arabs are capable of doing is to issue unilateral and low-keyed appeals which are usually ignored." -- Rashed Al-Uraimi , Al-Ittihad