http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/08/08/lebanon-4th-week-of-israels-war/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:27:58 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/08/08/lebanon-4th-week-of-israels-war/comment-page-1/#comment-222088 anonymous Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:22:35 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=13815#comment-222088 it is so painful to watch the leaders of both israel and lebanon talk about their achievements and continuing the war while putting in a word or two about the dead people and children. it is even more unbearable listening to Rice asking the Israelis to try and not kill so many civilians and innocent poor children while selling them more and more bombs. whole families have been destroyed and many of them are very poor people who it seems are not worth mentioning that much. the rich escaped the south, and the lebanese government has done nothing to ensure the protection of the poor. then, the PM sheds tears on TV!! the death of kids seems to be some kind of a heroic deed of which both sides use the news as something hardly significant. these human souls have been reduced to numbers not even worthy of mentioning their names on TV or for that matter anywhere else. i would like to say i am very disappointed in the UN, who hardly intervened, the Relief groups, who many say would not go to bombed places and save the wounded, the lebanese government, the USA, france, and the israeli government, who are ok with the death of innocent ppl as long as they are not israeli, and to whom the death of one israeli is worth the death of 20 lebanese. this war has done nothing but build hatred and resentment. these inhuman acts show that we have never really advanced from the stone age or the barbaric days. how can anyone say we are civilized today and advanced??? it is so painful to watch the leaders of both israel and lebanon talk about their achievements and continuing the war while putting in a word or two about the dead people and children. it is even more unbearable listening to Rice asking the Israelis to try and not kill so many civilians and innocent poor children while selling them more and more bombs. whole families have been destroyed and many of them are very poor people who it seems are not worth mentioning that much. the rich escaped the south, and the lebanese government has done nothing to ensure the protection of the poor. then, the PM sheds tears on TV!! the death of kids seems to be some kind of a heroic deed of which both sides use the news as something hardly significant. these human souls have been reduced to numbers not even worthy of mentioning their names on TV or for that matter anywhere else. i would like to say i am very disappointed in the UN, who hardly intervened, the Relief groups, who many say would not go to bombed places and save the wounded, the lebanese government, the USA, france, and the israeli government, who are ok with the death of innocent ppl as long as they are not israeli, and to whom the death of one israeli is worth the death of 20 lebanese. this war has done nothing but build hatred and resentment. these inhuman acts show that we have never really advanced from the stone age or the barbaric days. how can anyone say we are civilized today and advanced???

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