Escape From Beirut. One Canadian's Story:

[Jacobin]

This is a letter that was received by CBC.ca from Zoë Horn, a Canadian living in Beirut, who wrote about the early days of the Israeli bombing and her rescue from Lebanon.

I wanted to send another update, but I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, so forgive me if this e-mail is rambling.

Last I wrote, I was sitting in an internet café recounting the first days of the fighting while listening to bombs falling around me. At times, I felt like I was writing a fictional story, as opposed to relaying the reality of my situation.

After writing to you, I went to the house of some friends who had barricaded themselves in their apartment since the beginning of the conflict. Their house had become a hub for our friends, their couches always full of people staring at the television and checking their internet on Jihan's computer. Jihan and her brother, Tarek, are Palestinian students who have been living and studying in Beirut for a year.

More Here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_horn/20060718.html

Its worth the read....

Appears from her story that Canada is doing nothing to help its citizens stranded there in an effort to emulate the DrunkenCowboy and to curry favor with him. So sad

[KoKo]

1. Not hearing anything from Canada or the rest of the World about this

latest Bush Backed WAR! Destroying Lebanon's Infrastructure and Economy is just what the NeoCons and Bush/Cheney are about.

In the Name of Israel it guarentees them November Elections..in case their RW Fudies don't turn out.

[slackmaster]

2. Canada is not the neutral party it used to be in Israel/Arab conflict

And for some good reasons, not just to appease the Bush regime.

[Spazito]

4. Bull, it is precisely because of the faux Con party and their wish

to be bushites. If you check the opposition party sites, you will find that Harper's response and actions are not acceptable to Canadians.

Here are some items it might be worth reading:

Escape from Beirut


http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_horn/20060718.html

Canada's Lebanon stand sparks domestic criticism

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060718/wl_canada_nm/canada_mideast_canada_politics_col

[Peace Patriot]

5. Slackmaster, oh yeah, you're the one over on an election thread...

demanding "hard evidence" that Bushite-controlled touchscreens actually flip votes. 25 to 30 voters calling in about the vote flipping, and that's not proof to you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2399539

"Some good reasons" that Canada is no longer a neutral party: So, what are these "good reasons"? And what is your proof that they are good?

[slackmaster]

10. I haven't heard 25 to 30 voters, whose candidate lost, complaining

I see someone on a forum saying they heard that. Two degrees removed from any possible way for me to verify it. I wonder if an equal number of people who voted Republican have complained about their votes being switched to Democratic, which is what I as a systems administrator and analyst would expect if there was a system flaw at play. But since their guy won and this is a Democratic forum, I wouldn't expect that kind of information to be repeated here.

Back to the thread topic: Canadian technology firms are selling militarily useful technology to Israel, not to Iran or Syria or the Hezbollah militia. The information is not hard to find.

[gula]

7. Care to elaborate on what good reasons Harper might have to

support bombing civilians, destroying vital infrastructure, destroying civilians escape route, hell basically destroying a whole country for two kidnapped soldiers?

They better be good.

[slackmaster]

11. Canadian defense-related technology is being sold to Israel

Not to Arab nations. Look it up for yourself.

If Canada ever chimes in on the present situation it will focus on humanitarian concerns and protecting its own citizens.

Canada supports Israel's military. Canada as a nation has chosen which side it favors in this conflict. That may not have been the case 20 years ago, but it is now.

[nodehopper]

8. it should still provide for its citizens abroad

[Spazito]

3. Sadly, our PM, a faux Con, has his nose so far up bush's ass

he is even trying to "outbush bush" as the leader of one of our opposition described him. Harper is now trying to backtrack because he is being inundated with scathing editorials/columns in Quebec and Ontario, two provinces he needs even to hold onto his minority government in the next election. He is now in Cyprus, personally picking up a few Canadians and, co-incidentally, posing for photos ala the bush "fake turkey" episode in Iraq. His stunt will be just as "sucessful", I suspect.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. You're not hearing anything...

because they're mostly against it.

[Peace Patriot]

9. The Bush junta is turning the whole world into Katrina!

Innocents slaughtered without a thought. Refugees with no refuge. Peaceful people under bombardment. No help, no appeal. No one in authority cares.

Canadian Zoe Horn's story of fleeing Beirut is heartrending--both for her personally, and for other Canadians, Americans and Britishers abandoned by their governments--abandoned by all the colluders and war profiteers and fascists and fascist ass-kissers who have taken over our democracies--and also for the poor people of Lebanon, who had painfully rebuilt their country after years of war, only to see it smashed to bits by the Israelis, for something that most Lebanese had absolutely nothing to do with, if it can even be said to have a cause. It just seems like Rumsfeldian chaos-making to me. Bombing civilian targets in Beirut, for Chrissake! What is the sense in that? Has Israel gone mad? Well, probably no more "mad" than the NeoCons and PNACers are. Mad with a purpose. Mad to take over the Middle East and shove all these people into Palestinian-type refugee camps. Israel is the PNACers proxy, I see. They couldn't get their invasions any other way. So they got Israel to do it--which seems more than willing. Scooter Libby must be grinning among his indictment papers. This is what he "sacrificed" himself for. A bloodbath in the Middle East.

I am sick at heart. This is what Diebold and ES&S were all about, too.