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Distraught Arabs beat their heads against the Israeli apartheid. By Mahgoub in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds

"Unfortunately, the miserable Egyptian state is short-sighted and doesn't think about the future." -- Mohamed Abul-Gha, Al-Masry Al-Yom

"Isn't it true that Egyptian legislation has not done justice to education and left it to deteriorate until ignorant [students] started graduating from university?" -- Ali El-Sayed, Al-Wafd

"In the Press Syndicate election campaigns, anything can happen." -- Mohamed El-Shabba, Nahdet Masr

"The Iraqi government needs to adopt a clear and transparent policy regarding the PKK since Iraq as a whole is more important than any political party or political belief." -- Ahmed Al-Rabie, Asharq Al-Awsat

"It is in Kurdish interests to work towards reassuring the neighbourhood that their experiment in ruling is the result of development in modern Iraq, in war and in peace, and not a law that must be applied to the Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran." -- Abdullah Iskandar, Al-Hayat

"Kurds should ask whether reconciling with the countries that host Kurdish communities is better and safer for them, or will the dream of creating the Greater Kurdish State, despite all the hardships that entails, remain their priority." -- Al-Riyadh