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By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

"Either we overestimated the effectiveness of airport scanning machines, or the dreadful virus is more intelligent than all the measures we took." -- Mustafa Shafiq , Al-Wafd

"However ferocious swine flu is, it is not more dangerous than road accidents that take the life of tens of thousands, or ferries which sink or trains that catch fire, all killing thousands more." -- Ahmed Abul-Maati , Al-Arabi

"We are in danger because people spend more time in the streets and in transportation than they do in their homes." -- Khairi Ramadan , Al-Masry Al-Yom

"Netanyahu's talk about peace is unrealistic and paid mere lip service to US calls for peace." -- Rasha Eissa , Tishreen

"Netanyahu's speech was a repetition of previous speeches by previous extremist Israeli leaders who promised nothing and asked the Arabs and the world for everything in return." -- Al-Watan

"What was new in the speech was the talk of a Palestinian state, but the conditions were not." -- Tariq Al-Homayed , Asharq Al-Awsat