Shattered lives in Lebanon

Who was Salwa Wehbé ?

Most of the time, when we see pictures of people killed on TV or in newspapers, our perception of the life that is behind is always abstract. A life is a story and not everybody has the ability to construct a story out of a picture, especially when often such pictures are clouded by political, strategic, military or simply spin commentary and journalism of this sort, made most of the time to cover the troubling issues of the day like the Israeli defeat at the hands of Hezbollah for example !

But those friends of Israel who are bitter today and cannot even aknowledge Israel's defeat are pathetic and blind. They can be assured that Israel made sure that its own military defeat would be a human defeat for Lebanese and for Hezbollah. Minutes before ceasefire Israelis were still bombing appartment buildings, civilians and economic infratsructure in Beyrouth and the south. How can The Guardian let such a huge amount of hate spill over their paper when Lebanese, Arabs and Muslims are mourning their dead today !

I learned, from the Palestinian and lebanese crises, that the West's contempt for Arabs and Muslims is a blind process, remnant of its colonial past and it is called Racism !