The Arab peace initiative is being followed by an Israeli demand to amend.
Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

Political strife blowing up sectarian strife.
Amgad Wassim in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat '


Despite continuous Arab press campaigns, Palestinian prisoners languish in Israeli jails.
In the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam


Arab divisions -- the Israeli wall of separation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the three-mile-long concrete wall around Baghdad's Sunni enclave of Adhamiyah.
In Al-Sharq of Qatar


Help!'
The tiny lifesaver of meagre salary raises is a drop in Egypt's ocean.
By Mustafa Hussein in the Egyptian daily Al-Akhbar

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