Behind the scenes in Lebanon
Been watching the news today, with an interview on Al-Jazeera with the Finnish President Tarja Halonen. Halonen was interviewed by reporter Ahmed Mansour as the head of the state of the country holding the rotating presidency of the European Union. The discussion, which aired on Al-Jazeera last week was quite harsh, seems to be Al-Jazeera’s style.
Anyway, watching this heated discussion got me surfing on the web. This got me onto a site where a Lebanese journalist gives his views on the war. Really interesting to read, and probably an article that will get him killed in his country. A quote:
Each Irano-Syrian fort that Jerusalem destroys, each islamic fighter they eliminate, and Lebanon proportionally starts to live again! Once again, the soldiers of Israel are doing our work. Once again, like in 1982, we are watching – cowardly, lying low, despicable, and insulting them to boot – their heroic sacrifice that allows us to keep hoping. To not be swallowed up in the bowels of the earth. Because, of course, by dint of not giving a damn for southern Lebanon, of letting foreigners take hold of the privileges that belong to us, we no longer had the ability to recover our independence and sovereignty. If, at the end of this war, the Lebanese army retakes control over its territory and gets rid of the state within a state – that tried to suffocate the latter –, it will only be thanks to Tsahal [the Israeli Defense Forces. Translator’s note]
The article also shows a satellite picture of Beirut with the areas that are “destroyed by Israel” marked. Interesting… The media reports I seem to be reading/hearing/seeing give a totally different picture…
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