From The Inside AGAIN!

Dear All,

For those of you who've called, emailed and texted, thank you for
your support and concern.

I don't really know what to say; I am outraged, devastated,
disgusted, furious, heartbroken. If there was any viable way back
into Lebanon I would go back. Anything better than being here,
horrified, while outside the days go on as usual.

There are 200 civilians casualties and counting. There are 500,000
refugees from the South in Beirut sleeping in public parks and
schools. They have no access to food or medicine. It has been
confirmed today that the Israelis have been using chemical weapons on
the population in the South. Nowhere is this being reported. In
addition to having destroyed all the roads, bridges, ports and the
airport - all rebuilt painstakingly in the last fifteen years - they
have also destroyed the main dairy factory of the central plains,
grain silos, water processing plant, electricity plants, petrol
stations and phone networks. These are all clearly terrorist targets
as you know. Only one electricity plant remains. The American
University Hospital is estimated to run out of power in 12 hours,
which will leave all the injured without any support. The destruction
is mounting, and continues with impunity and shameful nonresponse
from the international community. All this without mentioning the
continued decimation of Gaza, which has been pushed away from the
front pages. This is not merely "disproportionate response". This,
this is terrorism.

I urge you all to speak out about this. If this escalates, it will
flare into a regional war, and no one will be safe, not even here.
There is a a demonstration on Saturday at noon (details can be found
at the Stop the War Coalition site http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ ). If
you can come, please come, especially on Saturday. Please ask others
to come, and that they themselves tell others to come.

The coverage on the television stations has been peppered with
rhetoric and distorts the truth by not reporting on the frightful
level of destruction. On July 13 on the BBC, Maureen Lipman was
allowed to say, uncontested, that life is not cheap for the Israelis
while it is "quite cheap" on the other side. This is racism, pure and
simple.

I have included a few links to alternate news sources below. I urge
you to read. We are writers. We fight with words, and knowledge.
These are the only tools we have.

For those of you whom I've bothered, sorry for taking your time.
I've had my say.

Stay safe,

Fdz

http://www.waronlebanon.blogspot.com/