Lebanon Is A "Total Human Disaster"! Hospitals Running Out of Fuel

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Faleh A. Jabar, an Iraqi intellectual resident in Beirut who has been a leading force in promoting a democratic intellectual culture in Iraq, writes from Lebanon:


Dear All:

This situation in Lebanon is going from bad to worst. Innocent lives are being shattered and threatened in mass.

I need to ask you and other colleagues in the academia to launch a campaign to pressure the US to stop Israeli destruction of bridges, power stations, and end the Israeli blockade to Lebanon. Fuel is running short, and hospitals will come to a stand still, water supplies will be cut short, a total human disastor. Israel's official target is to secure Hizbollah-free south, not to starve four millions and randoumly threaten the lives of all civilians.

I am sixty years old this year, and my life does not matter that much; but I look at the young and shudder: I have young neighbours who need kidney-wash every 48 hours, and there are children with cancer, lot with heart diseases. Cutting power supply means a death sentence to them.

May I add that doctors in Beirut advised that the fate of more than 20,000 patients is at stake. Pregnant women will most certainly suffer. Their numbers are anybody's guess. There are two tankers waiting offshore for Israeli guarantees to no avail. They carry fuel supplies to power plants and vehicles, some 20 odd days.

http://www.juancole.com/



A Lebanese woman mourns the loss of her relatives after their house was destroyed by an Israeli air raid on the south Lebanese village of Ghassaniyeh August 7,2006. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080601mideast/im:/060807/photos_ts/2006_08_07t061650_290x450_us_mideast

[malaise]

1. Israel, the US and Britain

do not give a damn. Their agenda is more important than the lives of human beings and their pets. The fascists in charge of this planet are evil beyond belief.

[chimpymustgo]

2. They could not make it any clearer they don't give a shit about Arab lives

That's been the case for decades, but with the thinnest veneer of "even-handedness" (which was nothing but bullshit).

But now, they don't even try to cover. Whatever Israel wants to do...fine. They're going to march right to the Litani River and take whatever they want. And B*sh, Blair, and Condi will keep "brainstorming".