Is someone going to talk about stopping Israel?
I am really glad that people in Lebanon on Canadian (and other non-Lebanese) passports are getting out. It sounds like quite an experience. I now feel intimately familiar with it. But ah… how bout maybe talking about putting an end to the invasion that people are fleeing?
Eight Montréalers are among the more than 300 civilians that the Israeli Defence Forces have killed so far.( That outstrips Hizbollah’s body count by about 15 to one. So my denunciation of their rocket attacks on Haifa is about that much less.)
IDF tanks are amassing on the Lebanese border, Koffi Annan is denouncing Israeli aggression but it looks like Israel’s second invasion of Lebanon is going to happen.
And now Stephen Harper is joining George Bush in providing ideological cover for an act of aggression that will set prospects for peace in the middle east back 30 years.
And yet the web and the TV are full of accounts of boat voyages of the lucky ones – people who will escape the carnage – and what a tough time they had sailing to Cyprus.
I am sure it wasn’t the Love Boat, as one person mentionned, but when are the journalists going to go in and talk to people who are still in Lebanon, dodging shells. I’m sure it’s not Fantasy Island.
Israel’s funders need to pull the plug, and its cheerleaders need to put the pom poms away and talk ceasefire.
July 21st, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Ya-dont the media just love their triumph thru hardship stories–did we hear much about the ones that didn’t make it?
Please have a look at the “Real” Human Interest angle below-
be warned it’s very graphic-photos out of Beiruit.
From The Lebanese People To The So Called “Civilized” World: “Thank You”