Watan and Alsharq newspapers commented on the current events there. Alsharq said that the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, through his policies associated with Foreign agendas, is pushing his country toward sectarian war. On the Palestinian issue, Almadinah newspaper commented on the disappearance of three Israeli settlers and criticized the new aggressive Israeli behavior in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a new episode in a series of Israeli sanctions imposed by Israel on the Palestinians to undermine the Palestinian reconciliation. Al-Riyadh newspaper lamented the current situation of some Arab countries and expressed concern over the prospect of dividing them along ethnic, sectarian and tribal lines.
