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With little cover from NATO, Saakashvili sinks. By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

"The policies the government has adopted have prompted people to hate it and wish the worst for [its institutions]." -- Sahar El-Mogui, Al-Masry Al-Yom

"Neither the government is able to explain to the people what it is doing, nor do the people understand what is happening." -- Gamal Zayda, Al-Ahram

"Smuggling [Egyptian] antiquities will never be stopped, for trading in antiquities is more beneficial than dealing in drugs." -- Abdel-Halim Noureddin, Nahdet Masr

"Damascus has not given up its policy of re-taking total control of Lebanese decision-making, as it used to do in the past." -- Walid Choucair, Al-Hayat

"The new Russia has produced a Mafia-style culture of materialism, greed and violence." -- Amir Taheri, Asharq Al-Awsat

"Democracy appears to be nothing but a mere name given to the justification of the continuity of leadership." -- Abdullah Iskandar, Al-Hayat