'Why do they give weapons to Israel and food to us?'

[Purveyor]

From Daniel McGrory in Beirut

THE fanfare marking yesterday’s arrival of the first American aid to Lebanon was scorned by Esam Haider and 2,000 fellow refugees living in an underground car park after their homes were bombed by Israel.

Mr Haider, aware of recent reports that the US was accelerating the delivery of new missiles to Israel, was furious. “Why does President Bush send billions of dollars of weapons to Israel and hands the Lebanese a few boxes of food and blankets?” the 24-year-old chef asked.

“Is he just trying to fatten us up before he gives Israel bigger bombs to kill us?” he said as his nine-month old daughter slept on the concrete floor of the vast supermarket car park in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

The Haiders live close to the office of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, so their apartment block has gone and parking bay B4 has been their home for the past fortnight. It is airless, stifling and unsanitary but, as Mr Haider notes, it at least offers protection from the airstrikes.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2285875,00.html

[leftofthedial]

1. zionists like to kill fat people

I guess

[uppityperson]

3. snort. I am ready for bed

[blonndee]

2. How very sad. I wish there was something

I could do, personally. Dammit!!! It's so unfair. :cry:

[cynatnite]

6. I hear mercycorps is very good...

http://www.mercycorps.org/

They have an impressive website. We may donate a few bucks.

[blonndee]

9. Thank you. I will use them.

I meant something to...you know, BE there to help, but I know that's impossible. I'm not doing Red Cross anymore (sorry, no flames please, just a personal decision) so I'll try mercycorps.

[Erika]

4. Buchanan says W should recognize the irony in Condi

giving missles and bombs to Israel to kill the Lebanese while giving humanitarian aid to the Lebanese.

W, Condi, and the neocons have no sense of reality except the one they are trying to create.

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[Erika]

7. What are you talking about n/t

[DYouth]

8. The Democrats agreeing with Bush

That's all.

[Erika]

10. There were no democrats agreeing with W.

What are you talking about?