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'I'm not used to this.' Helmi El-Touni in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram ; While Lebanon was bombed to pieces, the world wore mufflers. By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

"The resistance was obviously in control of the battlefield, and no one until now knows how they managed to do it." -- Al-Wafd

"I don't think the nation has experienced such a unique, dignified feeling as this now that it has realised how a group of a few believers withstood the barbarian massacres of the enemy." -- Yehia El-Gamal , Al-Masri Al-Yom

"It seems that movements resisting occupation in any part of the world provoke President Bush's wrath, whether in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan or elsewhere." -- Rifki Fakhri , Al-Akhbar

"What is required now is not to find ways of disarming Hizbullah, but to find ways to benefit from its weapons in boosting Lebanon's defence and from its experience in its war with Israel." -- Emad Marmal , As-Safir

"By failing to describe these [Israeli acts] as war crimes the resolution cleared the aggressor and blamed the victims." -- Charl Kamila , Tishreen

"It was a life or death war that aimed at deterring any Arab or Muslim from even thinking of fighting Israel or its army." -- Buthayna Shaaban , Asharq Al-Awsat