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Long Night in Beirut TonightJerome, Sábado, Julio 15, 2006 - 22:29
Sawsan
For 4 days straight, since Wednesday 12th of July at around noon, Israel has been bombing Beirut, the South of Lebanon, parts of the Bekaa and other parts in Lebanon non-stop. It is 12:49 am Sunday morning right now. In Beirut, Israeli warplanes are throwing bombs successively on an area called Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and they have just announced that there is a big fire expanding in the whole area. Two things are sure: first, Israel seems determined to continue its terrorizing and brutal and inhumane offensive on Lebanon. Second, more civilians will be killed. I hope this will change the mind of people around the world who believe the Israeli military when it says that one of its priorities in its offensives (anywhere, not only in Lebanon) is to make sure not to hurt civilians. This you can reject by following the news of Lebanon. I can’t take out my mind the image I saw on TV yesterday when they showed the Israeli soldiers on one of the Israeli warships stationed a few kilometers from the coastline of Beirut (this was taken by a video camera on the ship itself or a boat next to the ship). They first showed the backs of three Israeli military men, trying to target their rocket on a certain place just south of Beirut. After they fired their rocket, one of them, not more than 20 years old, turned around, looking at the camera and smiling naively. As if he were smiling proudly to his mother after winning a certain stage in his play station game, in one of those videogames that American videogame corporations produce, where he was a probably a solider who just assassinated a certain number of “terrorists
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