A friend (the face-to-face kind) directed me to the blog of her friend -- who is writing as an Anglo in Lebanon, from the hills overlooking Beirut. Today, he says:
What we see here is a tripling in the price of produce and some reduction in the range of terrible things that we can expect to happen - in other words some set of rules has emerged about what they are going to bombard and what they are not. For now.I'm searching for real people posting from Lebanon or Israel -- not politicos, not religious leaders. Shout if you have recommendations.
History repeats itself, and nowhere more disastrously as when people in power repeatedly act as if history were going to repeat itself exactly. In military parlance, this is called "preparing to fight the last war"...
As I said in the last posting and in the last comment, there are enough people who want to be left in peace on both sides to make this peace stick. There is a minority that wants war to extermination, and those must be and easily can be dealt with. The big problem is in those huge majorities on both sides who believe that their existence is in danger.
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Instead of looking for people to tell you what you want to hear – in accordance with the US media propaganda tradition.
Why not try looking at the UN voting record on Israel and why such massacres and Qana, and Sabra Shatila are barely known in the US.
Those are HARD facts, of course those facts contradict EVERYTHING Americans are taught to believe about Israel and the USA – but they are FACTS, and it is your duty as a journalist to inform the US public of them.
Of course you’ll get sacked – but you’ll know then that you live in a police state, no different from the USSR.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
Albanaich
Thanks, Albanaich …
I didn’t mean that in a bad way.
The whole of the US media do it, that is, look for the story they want to hear, or the person they want to hear the story from .. . . unfortunately, all you ever get from that is news that fits your already preconcieved aganda.
The duty of a journalist is to inform – not entertain and that should mean telling people facts that they don’t want to here.
Somewhere in the last 30 years or so this role disappeared in the US
Hi Kathy. I have a new page on Israeli and Lebanese bloggers you might want to check out. I am also looking for more Lebanese bloggers, so definitely let me know if you come across any.