The Egypt­ian gov­ern­ment don’t want to acknowl­edge that Egypt’s hey­day is long gone, and slo­gans like “Masr um al-Duniya” = “Egypt is the mother of the world” is evap­o­rated (thanks to Mubarak).

Alger­ian Abde­laziz Boute­flika wants to invite Sudan’s pres­i­dent to visit Alge­ria as a thank for orga­niz­ing the foot­ball game.

Syria news­pa­per Al-Watan reacted very angry today saying:

While the Israeli air force bombed Gaza [yes­ter­day] .. and the Egypt­ian regime at the high­est lev­els busy with its football-crisis … Peres announced from Cairo that Jerusalem is under the Israeli sov­er­eignty, and Mubarak advises him how to do that.

Alger­ian For­eign Affairs offi­cial in the par­lia­ment said:

They Mubarak’s regime shame­ful posi­tions towards Arab issues, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Zion­ists against the Pales­tini­ans, behind Egypt’s cam­paign against Algeria.