Lebanon's Victims

I feel really bad about the people of Lebanon, their government is ineffectual in dealing with Hezbollah. Hezbollah could care less about them and demonstrates their contempt by placing military targets in civilian areas. And Israel is going to finally do something about the terrorists who have been at war with them for many years and they are going to do it in Lebanon. This leaves the Lebanonese in great danger but with no real stake in the war (except to finally get rid of Hezbollah but at a great expense to them).

And even though I have sympathy for their plight, But I really can't understand this attitude:

The plight of Tyre's people is the story of the latest Arab-Israeli conflict writ small: In nine days of attacks that Israel says have targeted the infrastructure of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Lebanon's civilians have suffered inordinately, with more than 300 dead, many times that number wounded and 500,000 displaced. As this city awaits the brunt of an Israeli attack that most think is imminent, resignation, hopelessness, occasional defiance and a sense of abandonment course through the beleaguered population.

"They evacuate the foreigners, bring them to safety, and they leave us like dogs in the street," said Therese Khairallah, sitting with friends in an alley near the seashore. "A small mistake turned into this mountain of a disaster, and we're the victims."

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Why is it that the people of the south -- the women and the children -- die? And the foreigners are the only ones who can leave? What about the Lebanese?" Muhanna asked. "Why the foreigners and not us?" His friend Mohammed Aidibi, 20, jumped in. "The Lebanese aren't considered people," he said. "Foreigners are the only ones who have the right to live."

Who do they think evacuated the foreigners? Don't they realize that it was the foreigners' governments that evacuated them? It is Lebanon's job to protect its people, a job that they have failed to do. And since the government has failed you, shouldn't you do something to ensure your safety? A twenty year old doesn't have the ability to walk to safety?