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<DIV>Copyright 2006 Newspaper Publishing PLC<BR class=br>All Rights Reserved <BR
class=br>The <B>Independent</B> (London)</DIV>
<CENTER><BR class=br><B>July</B> 17, 2006 Monday <BR class=br>First
Edition</CENTER>
<DIV><BR class=br><B>SECTION:</B> NEWS; Pg. 2<BR class=br><BR
class=br><B>LENGTH:</B> 1178 words<BR class=br><BR class=br><B>HEADLINE:</B> Two
nations: divided by war but united by fear; <BR class=br>'If our Prime Minister
is crying, what are we to do?'<BR class=br><BR class=br><B>BYLINE:</B> ROBERT
<B>FISK</B> in Beirut<BR class=br><BR class=br><B>BODY:</B><BR class=br><BR
class=br><BR class=br>You could see the Israeli missiles coming through the
clouds of smoke, hurtling like thunderbolts into the apartment blocks of
Ghobeiri, the crack of the explosions so loud that my ears are still singing
hours later as I write this report.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Yes, I suppose you
could call this a "terrorist" target, for here in these mean, fearful streets is
- or rather was - the Hizbollah headquarters. Even the movement's propaganda
television station, Al-Manar, lay apancaked ruin in the street, its broadcasts
still being transmitted from the station's bunker beneath the rubble. But what
of the tens of thousands of people who live here? <BR class=br><BR class=br>The
few who were not lying in their basements ran shrieking through the streets -
not gunmen, but women with screaming children, families holding suit-cases,
desperate to leave the heaps of broken buildings, entire apartment blocks
smashed to bits, the roadways covered in smashed balconies and torn electrical
wires. "You don't have to help the resistance," Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the
Hizbollah leader, told the Lebanese on television last night. "The resistance is
on the front line and the Lebanese are behind them."<BR class=br><BR
class=br>Untrue, of course. It is the Lebanese - and their 130 dead, almost all
civilians - who are also on the front line. In Israel, 24 have been killed, 15
of them civilians. So the exchange rate for death in this filthy war is now
approximately one Israeli to five Lebanese. So many Lebanese have now fled
Beirut for Tripoli in the north of Lebanon, or for the Bekaa Valley in the east
- or to Syria - that Beirut, where one and a half million people live, is a
ghost city, its remaining residents sitting in their homes amid the hopelessness
of all those who believed that this country was at last emerging from the
shadows of its 15-year civil war. It was Nasrallah who said that there are "more
surprises to come", and the Lebanese fear that the Israelis, too, have some more
surprises for them.<BR class=br><BR class=br>I watched one of these from my
sea-front balcony at dusk on Saturday, an American-made Apache helicopter
turning three times over the Mediterranean before firing a single missile -
perfectly visible, with smoke pouring from the tail - that smacked into Beirut's
brand new lighthouse on the Corniche in a cloud of brown muck. So what was this
for? Another "terrorist" target, I suppose. Like the gas stations bombed in the
Bekaa Valley. Like the convoy of 20 civilians incinerated in an Israeli airraid
on Saturday after being or dered by the Israelis themselves to leave their home
village on the border.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Last night, Hizbollah's missiles
after killing 10 Israelis in Haifa were falling on the occupied Syrian Golan
Heights, setting the forests alight, and on the Israeli city of Acre. The
Syrians warned of an "unlimited" response if Israel attacked them - the Israelis
have been saying, untruthfully, that Syrian troops and Iranians are present in
Lebanon, helping Hizbollah in their battle and the preposterous response of the
G8 summit was greeted with despair. Tony Blair, who is now also, it seems, the
Minister of Root Causes, believes Syria and Iran are behind the original
Hizbollah attack. He is right. But it is to Damascus that the West will have to
go to switch this dirty war off.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Certainly, the
powerless Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, cannot do so. With his
government accused by Israel of responsibility for Wednesday's capture of two
Israeli soldiers - a claim as preposterous as it is wrong - he went on
television in tears to appeal to the United Nations to arrange a ceasefire for
his "disaster-stricken nation". The Lebanese appreciated the tears, but those
tears are unlikely to have had President Bush shaking in his boots. Churchill in
1940, Siniora-asincereand good man, uncorrupted by Lebanese politics - is not.
"If our Prime Minister is crying," one Lebanese woman astutely pointed out to me
yesterday, "what is the civilian population of our country supposed to do?"<BR
class=br><BR class=br>But where are the other sup-posed political titans of
Lebanon? What is Saad Hariri, son of the assassinated ex-prime minister Rafiq
Hariri - who rebuilt the Lebanon which Israel is now destroying - doing in
Kuwait, chatting to the Kuwaitis about his country's predicament? The Kuwaiti
army is scarcely going to come to defend Lebanon. Why isn't Hariri the son on
his private jet to the G8 summit in St Petersburg to demand of President Bush
that he protect the democratically-elected government and the nation he praised
for its "cedar revolution" last year? Or doesn't democracy matter when Israel is
smashing Lebanon? Answer: no, it doesn't.<BR class=br><BR class=br>UN Security
Council Resolution 1559 demanded a Syrian retreat from Lebanon - which was
accomplished - but it also demanded the disarming of Hizbollah, which was
definitely not accomplished. Many here suspected that 1559, designed by the
French and the Americans, was intended to weaken Lebanon and prepare it for a
peace treaty with Israel. Well, not any more. It was the Lebanese President,
Emile Lahoud, who still cravenly follows Syria's line - he is, after all,
Syria's man - who said yesterday that Lebanon "will never surrender". Lahoud as
Churchill. There is something obscene here<BR class=br><BR class=br>Nasrallah,
meanwhile, told the Israelis that: "If you do not want to play by rules, we can
do the same." It was a grim little threat that was obviously meant to counter
Ehud Olmert's equally grim little threat that there would be "far-reaching
consequences" for the missile attack on Haifa. Nasrallah's televised argument -
that Hizbollah originally wished to confine all casualties to the military -
will not wash with Israel, but may encourage those many Lebanese who were
originally outraged by Hizbollah's attack across the border on Wednesday, only
to be silenced by the cruelty of Israel's response<BR class=br><BR
class=br>"This is the last struggle of the 'umma'," Nasrallah said, the "umma"
being the Arab "homeland". Alas, that is what the Arab leaders said when they
joined Lawrence of Arabia's battle against the Ottoman empire in the First World
War. It is always the "last struggle".<BR class=br><BR class=br>D The weapons of
war<BR class=br><BR class=br>Fajr-3 missile<BR class=br><BR class=br>An
Iranian-built rocket with range of 45km which can carry a 45kg warhead. Israel
accused Hizbolah of firing 240mm Fajr-3 missiles against Haifa. Iran denies
supplying the missiles to Hizbolah<BR class=br><BR class=br>Fajr-5 rocket<BR
class=br><BR class=br>Longer-range version of Fajr-3 that can strike targets up
to 72km away<BR class=br><BR class=br>Raad missile<BR class=br><BR
class=br>Iranian-built missile with range of 120km. Could reach central Israel.
Israelis accused Hizbolah of firing Raad ("Thunder") missiles yesterday.
Hizbolah said last week it had fired Raad for the first time<BR class=br><BR
class=br>Katyusha<BR class=br><BR class=br>Previously the Hizbolah missile of
choice, the Russian-designed Katyushas have a range of 22km and variable
accuracy. Israel accused Syria of supplying Hizbollah with a longer-range
model<BR class=br><BR class=br>Kassem<BR class=br><BR class=br>Rockets with
range of up to 10km, used by Hamas guerrilas in Palestinian-ruled Gaza. Israeli
town of Sderot has been a frequent target of the notoriously inaccurate
missiles<BR class=br><BR class=br>F-16 fighter<BR class=br><BR class=br>The
US-made "fighting Falcon" is a multi-role fighter which has been dropping
quarter-ton bombs on targets in Lebanon</DIV>
<DIV><BR class=br><BR class=br><BR class=br><B>GRAPHIC:</B> Aterrified
Lebanesewoman inNabatiyeh finds her city turned into the front line KAMEL JABER
/REUTERS' The fifth day of bombing<BR class=br><BR class=br><B>LOAD-DATE:</B>
July 17, 2006 <BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/17/2006 3:20:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
abdallah.jabbour@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>There are a couple of interesting, unbiased articles by Robert Fisk that
are seemimgly worth reading. The latest is here: <A
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and there are links to others at the bottom of the page.</DIV>
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<DIV>Abdallah</DIV><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Lebanon-Articles
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