Al-Ahram Weekly Online   24 - 30 January 2008
Issue No. 881
Press review
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

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'Do something! Israel is killing dozens of Palestinians every day and you're sitting here doing nothing.' Hamid in Al-Ittihad of the UAE

"It is crystal clear that the parliament in our country always takes the side and defends the government in any situation, even if it committed mistakes." -- Khaled Salah, Al-Masry Al-Yom

"Israel is not sincere about ending its animosities towards Egypt in spite of the Camp David peace treaty signed between the two countries." -- Galal Dweidar, Al-Akhbar

"While the government is working day and night to cancel subsidies on basic commodities... it doesn't exert enough efforts to expose the means through which billions of pounds worth of subsidised commodities... are being squandered." -- Mahmoud Kamel, Al-Mal

"Gaza has turned into a one big gas oven more devastating and more criminal than that of the Nazis." -- Abdul-Bari Atwan, Al-Quds Al-Arabi

"Gaza got rid of the Israeli occupation to find itself now drowning in the quagmire of inter-Palestinian rifts and still under the Israeli firing machine which has not spared a tree or human." -- Al-Dostour

"In the minds of the locals, the US -- not Iran -- is the aggressive intruder in the Gulf." -- Patrick Seale, Al-Hayat

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