"We Arabs must admit reality: we are incapable of influencing events and reap only catastrophes and defeat." -- Nabil Zaki, Akhbar Al-Yom, 5 July

"From now on, we will not accept losses in the operating of airports, or of EgyptAir." -- Minister of Aviation Ahmed Shafiq in an interview with Al-Musawwar, 4 July

"Saddam Hussein's army will return, this time on the American payroll, to quell the popular revolt against the occupation." -- Mohsen Mohamed, Al-Wafd, 1 July

"The American administration -- regardless of its sympathy or support for Israel -- would not make a decision as dangerous as going to war against Iraq without having a clear idea that this was in its direct interests." -- Walid Abdel-Nasser, Al-Hayat, 6 July

"What the Palestinian government should know is that the Intifada has not been defeated, but that it has shaken the Israeli economy and that this is a basis for negotiations," -- Bilal Al-Hassan, Asharq Al-Awsat 6 July

"The Pakistani president should wait for concrete changes to happen, when the Palestinian people regain their sacred rights, before discussing the issue of normalisation [with Israel] and its validity," -- Abdel-Bari Otwan, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 6 July

"Hamas and Al-Jihad to Abu Mazen: No cease-fire without the release of POWs," -- Al-Hayat 5 July

C a p t i o n : Clockwise from top left: Amr Okasha's cartoon in Al-Wafd comments that it's better to take a photo of beans since we might never see them again after inflation; Mustafa Hussein's cartoon in Al-Akhbar shows a participant in 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' perplexed -- he can't answer the question: who will win Iraq's oil; and Amgad Rasmi in Asharq Al-Awsat shows two men fishing for rewards: one is after the $25 million reward for Saddam Hussein, and the other, in American flag, is after the countless millions of Iraqi oil

Al-Ahram Weekly Online : 10 - 16 July 2003 (Issue No. 646)
Located at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/646/pr3.htm