Reply #2: And yet much isn't destroyed. [View All]

[Igel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/world/middleeast/25beirut.html?hp&ex=1153886400&en=be1c981b68a49147&ei=5094&partner=homepage

"Destroying all of Lebanon" is a bit of hyperbole. Even some areas sharply affected by the Israelis are amenable to a quick fix--restore runways, restore electricity-generating capacity, fix a road ...

Others are levelled. Hezbollah gives guided tours of the devastated areas. Devastation sells. Showing pictures of people watching the devastation on tv while drinking lattes and eating pastries doesn't sell, even if the peopple are sitting in the same city that some claim is without water, power, sewer service, and is a mound of rubble.

In this case, the divide sells because it shows an economic disparity, former ethnic disagreements, and how now everybody's pulling together in such a way as to make Israel more hated. That's the story they want to present. Falsifying what people have gotten from numerous other stories is incidental.