"When will the settlements be disbanded? The question will not have an answer as long as Arab states are not united and their discourse is not effective?" -- Clovis Maksoud, Al-Shorouk "In the past decades, no minister of water resources showed any interest in the Nile water issue even though it was his prime responsibility." -- Wagdi Zeineddin , Al-Wafd "Violence is almost everywhere around us: in the street, at traffic lights, in the waiting queues for services, and even in banks. It has become a tool to obtain what some may consider as their right and in other cases to pirate the rights of others." -- Ibrahim Nafei, Al-Ahram "If the Iranian Shahram Amiri is truly a double agent, then this is the second time that the Americans have been taken in by a poisoned commodity." -- Al-Rashed Abdel-Rahman, Asharq Al-Awsat "There's no question that the story of Amiri is one of the strangest in the US-Iranian crisis and one of the strangest tales of espionage." -- Tariq Al-Homayed , Asharq Al-Awsat "Current talks among Washington, Tel Aviv and Ramallah have come to revolve around whether presidential envoy George Mitchell will be sitting with the two sides in separate rooms or in the same one!" -- Elias Harfoush , Al-Hayat
