Beirut’s Southern Suburbs Reduced To Rubble

[Purveyor]

(AFP) 20 July 2006

BEIRUT - Shoes, photo albums, teddy bears and a cash register poke through the debris. What were once eight-storey residential blocks are now rubble. The devastation in Beirut’s southern suburbs is complete, and disturbing.


It’s an apocalyptic scene of a once densely-packed neighbourhood gutted as if by earthquake.

The detritus lying on the dust and smashed concrete is that of ordinary people’s possessions, now nothing more than the grit of war to be trod underfoot.

Israeli bombs and missiles caused the destruction, launched by pilots ordered to strike at what was once the stronghold of Hezbollah, the Shiite Lebanese militia whose headquarters were nestled in the middle of the Haret Hreik district.

Now, that building, and many of the others in streets and blocks around are flattened. The ones left standing have been stripped of walls and roofs, exposing modest apartments inside.

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[kurth]

1. Guess who'll pay to fix it?

Yep. American taxpayers.

[MadHound]

2. Lebanon, no way!

They'll send the IMF in for a nice crippling high interest loan, and put the Lebanese people in thrall to the IMF for decades. C'mon, get with the program here, there's money to be made:eyes:

[kurth]

4. The IMF's line of credit is provided by the American taxpayers

to the tune of $40+ billion. It's corporate welfare for multinational banks.

[malaise]

3. The EU just rebuilt the Lenabese airport and

several roads and highways. but truthfully Israel and the US should pay.

Sp.

[Scurrilous]

7. I know who payed to break it. n/t

[Jacobin]

5. So, Israel blows up Lebanon with weapons we pay for

And then we get to pay billions for rebuilding all the stuff they blow up.

Got it. Makes sense.

:eyes:

[Hammit]

6. Yes

Why do we have to buy weapons for Israel? Why can't we spend that money on national healthcare or increased welfare?

[Jacobin]

8. oh just go back to where you came from