A visit early this year as part of a regional summit by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Sinai's Sharm El-Sheikh, where the attacks took place, was a "curse on this resort that is the pride of Egyptian tourism," the newspaper explained this week. This, aside from the fact that Israel's offer to assist Egypt fight the terrorists was, according to Al-Quds Al-Arabi, more devastating than the massacre itself.
Any terror attacks in Egypt, the newspaper editorial claimed, all stem from "growing frustration (in Egypt) for the past 25 years." That is, ever since Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. Ever since, Egypt has become a mediator for Israel with the Arabs and a tool of US foreign policy, the editorial continued.
Similar sentiment was to be found this week in Tishreen, a Syrian daily newspaper. Observing that "fear from terrorism has become a normal situation that is not limited to any one place or time," the daily claimed that the US-led 'war against terror' has been worse than a failure, with rates of terror-related deaths skyrocketing.
The US leaders of the campaign against terrorism, however, "don't want to look at the reasons of terrorism... and focus their campaign on the Arab region without looking at Israel, the first organizer of terrorism and its basic cause," the Syrian daily said.
Therefore, Tishreen editors wrote, Muslims and Arabs must fight terrorism, adding that "fighting it cannot be effective without going back to the causes and without serious credibility and well-studied mechanisms."
In contrast, the English-language Jordan Times warned Tuesday that unless the Arab states can agree on common frames of reference for the fight against terrorism, an Arab summit on the issue would be futile. Specific Jordanian concerns were evident in the article, which said that Arab states needed to "commit more in sharing information and cooperating in border control." Jordan shares a border with Iraq and Syria, two states where Islamic terrorists have found refuge or operating theaters of late. The paper called for a balance between increased security measures that may infringe on certain rights and maintaining basic human rights.
Any terror attacks in Egypt, the newspaper editorial claimed, all stem from "growing frustration (in Egypt) for the past 25 years." That is, ever since Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. Ever since, Egypt has become a mediator for Israel with the Arabs and a tool of US foreign policy, the editorial continued.
Similar sentiment was to be found this week in Tishreen, a Syrian daily newspaper. Observing that "fear from terrorism has become a normal situation that is not limited to any one place or time," the daily claimed that the US-led 'war against terror' has been worse than a failure, with rates of terror-related deaths skyrocketing.
The US leaders of the campaign against terrorism, however, "don't want to look at the reasons of terrorism... and focus their campaign on the Arab region without looking at Israel, the first organizer of terrorism and its basic cause," the Syrian daily said.
Therefore, Tishreen editors wrote, Muslims and Arabs must fight terrorism, adding that "fighting it cannot be effective without going back to the causes and without serious credibility and well-studied mechanisms."
In contrast, the English-language Jordan Times warned Tuesday that unless the Arab states can agree on common frames of reference for the fight against terrorism, an Arab summit on the issue would be futile. Specific Jordanian concerns were evident in the article, which said that Arab states needed to "commit more in sharing information and cooperating in border control." Jordan shares a border with Iraq and Syria, two states where Islamic terrorists have found refuge or operating theaters of late. The paper called for a balance between increased security measures that may infringe on certain rights and maintaining basic human rights.