Liban

Le Liban est à la une. Aux USA, l'évacuation des réfugiés estadouniens ne se fait pas sans peine, comme le décrit cet  article de CNN.

Je viens de recevoir un courriel d'une ancienne collègue américaine qui a reçu ceci de son ex-professeur d'arabe --je me permets de le poster ici puisqu'il a demandé à ce que son message soit publié largement; ce message rend le conflit plus proche de nous, bien au chaud dans notre petit confort quotidien :

Dear Family and Friends,

Please forgive us sending you this group message and for telling you
what
you already know. It is in great part to ease my conscience for what
feels
like deserting the helpless. Please say something to someone, call and
congressional office, whatever you can.

We hope to leave through Syria tomorrow, Thursday.



Now that the foreigners are being evacuated we are terribly afraid that
Israel will completely destroy what is left, especially the electricity
supply. The fuel tanks have already been bombed last week, we still
have
electricity for part of the day in our region (the south of Lebanon of
course is already starving and there is no medicine or communications).
We
are afraid that there is nothing standing in the way of the complete
destruction of electricity plants themselves. The last time they did
this
was in 1996 --no war, no attack out of the blue, when Netanyahu was
leaving
office and felt like cutting off Lebanon's electricity. We were here
then
too.

So: to everyone who would like to do something, anything, call a
congressman, call the media, call someone and say whatever you think
will
get someone's attention: over 200 civilians are dead, mosques and a
church
have been bombed, villages are isolated and starving, and the US is
completely culpable because Israel has 100% green light from them.
Congress
has already sent fuel for the Israeli planes that keep us all awake at
night. Israel does not listen to anyone else. Tell people that
Christians
are dying along with Muslims. Refugees fleeing from the bombing are
being
slaughtered. It should of course be completely obvious to everyone that
this
is creating hatred of the US in a new generation of people, not only
here
but around the world as everyone watches pictures that I am sure are not
being shown on US TV.

It cannot be stressed enough that this is not about Hizbollah. Israel is
bombing far more than Hizbollah. Over twenty Lebanese army soldiers
were
slaughtered Monday night when their quarters were attacked after
midnight,
among them Orthodox and Maronite and Sunni men and officers. Trucks
carrying food are being bombed. The Christian coastal city of Jubayl
was
bombed yesterday as refugees from the southern suburbs, which have been
bombed for the past week, arrived. Also yesterday a convoy of
ambulances
and medicine trying to get here through Syria was bombed.



It is terribly hard to leave thinking that we are leaving family,
friends
and colleagues to an unknown fate. Thanks for reading and for doing
whatever you can.