The Town that was Dahieh
This is Dahieh before the attack...
And this is Dahieh after over 23 tons of explosives struck the area...These are fresh satellite pictures of the destruction of Dahieh (southern Beirut) after Israeli jets and naval boats launched massive attacks against the area. You can click on the before and after pictures to see a larger format. Keep posted for more.
mrtez
posted by beirutlive at 6:18 PM
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I can´t imagine what it must feel like to watch your country being destroyed like that. If it´s any consolation all newspapers here in Sweden seem to think Israel has definately gone too far. Good luck.
It looks like they missed some spots...
Sept 11 times ten, easily. And that's just the capital.
fack!
Dobegs, thanks for the link. Excellent article.
Anon. 9/11 times 10? No. 3,000 souls vanished on that day. Buildings and infrastructure can be replaced - lives cannot.
"You Can Not Kill Us All"
An interview with Tina Naccache from Lebanon, by the American independent radio station "Democracy Now."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14195.htm
pm saniora never made such a statement of sending the lebanese army. this was the president of lebanon, a pro syrian personality. saniora, again, never made such a statement. he called the events of qana a war crime, yes, but stopped short of any other statements...
The fact Hezbollah laughs and says they bwin if Isreal doesn't kill everybody is the exact reason that Isreal announced it wouyld start flattening entiure villages. Those pictures are what Hezbollah calls winning? Call me silly, but I would rather lose and have peace.
fack! good idea, kill all those eyerabs, meet the fackers!
For a leftist who lives in Dahieh.. all lebanese must know how much i hated it before! pictures of war leaders everywhere and people supporting them 'to death' used to haunt me and made me feel that i'm in the wrong place!
but after this,all i can think about are people, relatively poor people who fled their war-torn homes in the south and bekaa and built these suburbs, house after house.. until it became their home and shelter!
to look at it now pains me so deeply coz after all it is a neighborhood that accepted me as part of it despite the ideological differences...
it made me feel safe to be among people and neighbors who care about eachother and smile at you and greet you every single time u pass by them!
these people are my people, maybe their ideology is a result of their experiences or un-experiences.
i do understand these people more than any time before and i don't blame them...
i blame the 'bigger' society that was detached from them most of the time and they felt they were not welcome any other place in beirut for example... i blame the political system and the absent civil society which forced them to elect on sectarian basis and to seek help from other sect-based organisations and parties.
they felt safe in dahieh... i felt safe among them too...
where will they go now?
why war even if it hits everyone, it hits them the most?
do they need more misery?
i know a family who lost their home in dahieh, their other home in the south and the father;s business during this war!
can anyone put himself in his shoes? i try and i find it cruel!
i wouldn't forgive...
but u know how he feels about it? he thanks 'God' because he kept him and his family safe and got all the damage to things which can be ribuild!
he feels more sorry for the people who lost their lives and their loved ones' lives...
he considers himself lucky!
This is what i was talking about... this is the spirit of people of Dahieh, who suffered a lot in the past few decades but kept their spirit up and so is their faith in God.
sometimes i just wish i had this faith in something or someone which keeps me so optimistic and strong... maybe this is a rare kind of faith and belief which does a good thing to its people after all...
The world can think whatever it likes to think, i am close to the border, and what Israel does is self defense, The Hezbollah is the one who started and the one who continues to launch rockets on peaceful civilians, Israel attack only Hezbollah homes and weapons, and even when the Hezbollah hides its weapons among Lebanese people like a group of cowards, Israel first tells all people to evacuate and only then it attacks. If Israel wanted to kill instead of defend itself, the Lebanese casualties were count in millions, and not hundreds. The Lebanese people have to thank Israel for freeing their home from Hezbollah that took over the country and holds them as hostages.
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