Trapped in Beirut
Guardian
Excerpt:
.. Of course, there are those who support Hezbollah. But the majority of the people I have met everywhere, Christian and Muslim, just want calm, quiet lives. In short, they want the peace that we take for granted in the west. Young people here realize Israelis want the same. A young Lebanese students said to me yesterday, " Khallas, this is 2006, why can't we just talk at a table, why are they bombing us?" Everyone, everywhere here is asking the same question: How can the international community allow Israel to strike us, our whole country, in this way? Why has the US not spoken out? Why does the EU refer only to "disproportionate force"? We are at war, they say, again, and we are being held to ransom by terror. Read more
Excerpt:
.. Of course, there are those who support Hezbollah. But the majority of the people I have met everywhere, Christian and Muslim, just want calm, quiet lives. In short, they want the peace that we take for granted in the west. Young people here realize Israelis want the same. A young Lebanese students said to me yesterday, " Khallas, this is 2006, why can't we just talk at a table, why are they bombing us?" Everyone, everywhere here is asking the same question: How can the international community allow Israel to strike us, our whole country, in this way? Why has the US not spoken out? Why does the EU refer only to "disproportionate force"? We are at war, they say, again, and we are being held to ransom by terror. Read more
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