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 Lebanese photojournalist, Layal Najib was killed by an Israeli strike on Sunday. She was only 23. This is just horrendous. Najib is yet another innocent victim of the Israeli collective punishment of Lebanon. Why did she have to perish at such a young age? This is an image Layal took while covering the invasion. It was published on Friday by AFP. The caption read: "A destroyed residential building in one of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Israel was amassing thousands more reservists on the Lebanese border to
stage ground incursions aimed at destroying Hezbollah positions,
warning it would not rule out a full-scale invasion despite mounting
calls for a ceasefire.(AFP/Layal Najib)"
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Very tragic, as all the deaths in this barbaric conflict. She seems to have been a very brave woman, who wanted the world to see what see was living and seeing. God rest her soul. Take care.
Sorry to tell you this Natasha, but she was a free-lancer occasionally for AFP and they are just cashing-in on her death! She was a full-timer for a local magazine…not a very credible news one but she wasn’t an AFP staffer. Anyways, it’s tragic she died so young and there are those trying to benefit from it.
Sorry about my last post, it was a bit over the top, but the above quote is “precisely” what I am talking about.
Lets put it in perspective. In some bad neighborhoods you get several things, gangs, drug dealers and cries of police brutality. It works kind of like this:
The neighbors don’t want to get in each others business, the one of them starts a gang and/or drug dealing. At some point innocent people get killed in a turf war. The cops try to deal with it, but people get hurt in the crossfire. Now you have a small scale version of the same war. Cops get shot, gang bangers get shot, some idiots decide to help the cops by killing gang bangers, the cops try to stop them too, now everyone is pissed off at the cops. Eventually it degenerates into a situation where no one wants to even *see* a cop, because if they show up innocent people are going to die, not because the cops want it to happen, but because no one wants to tell them who the gang members are and every idiot in the neighborhood who isn’t hiding in their homes, is out on the street telling them to mind their own business or waving a gun in their faces. The only people that can solve the problem are the people living there, but they would rather blame everyone and everything except their own complacence for the cesspool their 3-4 blocks of the city has turned into. And guess what happens if a) a rival gang shows up in their territory, or the cops finally decide to bust them? Yep, lots of innocent people get arrested, definitely hurt, or even killed.
We can’t “solve” these problems without help from the people living in the neighborhood, and its our own @$@#$ country. How the heck is Israel or Lebanon going to do so, when you have the same sort of, “As long as they leave me alone, I don’t care if they are storing RPGs in the next room.”, mentality in “both” countries? But worse, no one wants their friend, brother or cousin arrested for treason and terrorism, because he’s the one buying, selling or storing the weapons, and everyone else simply doesn’t want to know its happening, for fear of being the target of the same? And worse than that, both sides whine about the other side “playing the victim”, while really “planning” to kill all of them. Get a clue.
israeli said “This is not collective punishment, this is what happens when terrorists hide behind civilians”
So i guess since most Israelis are members of the Israeli military then it’s OK for the lebanese to bombs you?
Israeli said “Neither does Mr. Nasrallah care;”
Last time I checked the bombs that kill the lebanese innocents are Israeli bombs. what makes the killings double grotesque is that after the israelis burtcher the innocent, they tell the survivors “look what hizbouallah did” sick sick sick. this is blood blackmail. all the israelis have to do is stop sending bombs. but they kill and kill and kills and then they blame those who are not doing the killing. this is consistent with the israeli strategy of playing the victims while blaming those they kill. sick twisted people.