I received two disturbing comments via my blog this morning. One in particular was from a Lebanese named Rima who wrote:
Motherfuckers!!!!!!! You must go from the middel east you dont belong there. You are the most hating people in the world.
We hate you we hate we hate..
the war against you will start all over [...]
First it was a bold guerrilla strike against IDF forces resulting in eight dead and two kidnapped soldiers. Then, yesterday saw the rocketing of an Israeli ship resulting in four dead sailors. Today, Hezbollah continues to ratchet up the pressure as it rained Katyushas down on Haifa (which had never been hit before [...]
Read full post...In the past few weeks since the Gaza and Lebanon invasions began, I’ve been inveighing against George Bush’s ineffectual response to the mass mayhem. I thought it was sheer ineptitude a la Hurricane Katrina. But with U.S. veto of a Lebanese government call for a cease fire in return for deployment of the [...]
Read full post...View from Beirut: 10 month old dies (image: Blogging the Middle East)
For anyone wishing to read a first-hand account by a Lebanese blogger of the current crisis there, PLEASE read what Blogging the Middle East has to say about the conflict. It’s a first-person blog-by-blow, raw, in the moment diary and it’s invaluable to [...]
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