As the World Mourned the Paris Attack Victims, Who Grieved Over Lives Lost
in the Beirut Bombings?
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/as_the_world_mourned_the_paris_a
ttacks_who_grieved_beirut_20151115/
Posted on Nov 15, 2015
Three-year-old Haidar Mustafa sleeps in a hospital bed after being
wounded in one of Thursday's twin suicide bombings in Beirut. His parents
were killed. (Bilal Hussein / AP)
While across the globe, solidarity with France was displayed over the more
than 100 people killed in Paris on Friday, the victims of Beirut's similar
tragedy seemed to fall below the radar. Suicide bombers struck in the
Lebanese city Thursday, leaving 43 dead and over 200 injured, but the
Western media's ignoring of the attack prompted some to declare that to many
in the West, "Arab lives don't matter."
From The New York Times:
Around the crime scenes in south Beirut and central Paris alike, a sense of
shock and sadness lingered into the weekend, with cafes and markets quieter
than usual. The consecutive rampages, both claimed by the Islamic State,
inspired feelings of shared, even global vulnerability - especially in
Lebanon, where many expressed shock that such chaos had reached France, a
country they regarded as far safer than their own.
But for some in Beirut, that solidarity was mixed with anguish over the fact
that just one of the stricken cities - Paris - received a global outpouring
of sympathy akin to the one lavished on the United States after the 9/11
attacks.
Monuments around the world lit up in the colors of the French flag;
presidential speeches touted the need to defend "shared values;" Facebook
offered users a one-click option to overlay their profile pictures with the
French tricolor, a service not offered for the Lebanese flag. On Friday the
social media giant even activated Safety Check, a feature usually reserved
for natural disasters that lets people alert loved ones that they are
unhurt; they had not activated it the day before for Beirut. ... The
implication, numerous Lebanese commentators complained, was that Arab lives
mattered less. Either that, or that their country - relatively calm despite
the war next door - was perceived a place where carnage is the norm, an
undifferentiated corner of a basket-case region.
Read more.
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As the World Mourned the Paris Attack Victims, Who Grieved Over Lives Lost
in the Beirut Bombings?
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/as_the_world_mourned_the_paris_a
ttacks_who_grieved_beirut_20151115/
Posted on Nov 15, 2015
Three-year-old Haidar Mustafa sleeps in a hospital bed after being wounded
in one of Thursday's twin suicide bombings in Beirut. His parents were
killed. (Bilal Hussein / AP)
While across the globe, solidarity with France was displayed over the more
than 100 people killed in Paris on Friday, the victims of Beirut's similar
tragedy seemed to fall below the radar. Suicide bombers struck in the
Lebanese city Thursday, leaving 43 dead and over 200 injured, but the
Western media's ignoring of the attack prompted some to declare that to many
in the West, "Arab lives don't matter."
From The New York Times:
Around the crime scenes in south Beirut and central Paris alike, a sense of
shock and sadness lingered into the weekend, with cafes and markets quieter
than usual. The consecutive rampages, both claimed by the Islamic State,
inspired feelings of shared, even global vulnerability - especially in
Lebanon, where many expressed shock that such chaos had reached France, a
country they regarded as far safer than their own.
But for some in Beirut, that solidarity was mixed with anguish over the fact
that just one of the stricken cities - Paris - received a global outpouring
of sympathy akin to the one lavished on the United States after the 9/11
attacks.
Monuments around the world lit up in the colors of the French flag;
presidential speeches touted the need to defend "shared values;" Facebook
offered users a one-click option to overlay their profile pictures with the
French tricolor, a service not offered for the Lebanese flag. On Friday the
social media giant even activated Safety Check, a feature usually reserved
for natural disasters that lets people alert loved ones that they are
unhurt; they had not activated it the day before for Beirut. ... The
implication, numerous Lebanese commentators complained, was that Arab lives
mattered less. Either that, or that their country - relatively calm despite
the war next door - was perceived a place where carnage is the norm, an
undifferentiated corner of a basket-case region.
Read more.
-Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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