Word: beirutization
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...said one government advisor. But the 48-hour halt to Israeli's air campaign announced by Rice from Jerusalem after the disaster at Qana hasn't stopped bombs falling. There were air strikes in the south. And if the feelings are too raw for Rice to visit Beirut - Lebanese leaders made clear Sunday that there was no point in her making her scheduled visit to the city Monday - the vacuum left by the limits on what America is prepared to do diplomatically is already being filled by its rivals for influence in the region. The French foreign minister Phillipe Doust...
...Qana tragedy was a low point. She had been meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz shortly after 8 a.m Sunday when assistant secretary of state David Welch, Rice's point man for Israeli-Arab problems, received an urgent e-mail from U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman in Beirut. Feltman didn't have many facts yet, he and Welch instinctively sensed the potential for derailing Rice's efforts to mediate a cross-border settlement. Welch slipped into the meeting to give Rice a heads-up. She felt "sickened" at the news, she later told an aide...
...didn't help that Peretz knew about the Qana bombing and hadn't mentioned it. As the day wore on and the dimensions of the tragedy became apparent, Rice called a grief-stricken Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora, cancelled her trip to Beirut and in the late afternoon disappeared behind closed doors for an hour-and-a-half meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the second such meeting in as many days. She called President Bush three times during...
...United Nations flag flew at half-staff Monday outside the organization's mostly abandoned building in downtown Beirut. The scene was not as tranquil Sunday, when thousands gathered there to protest the killing of 54 Lebanese civilians in an Israeli air strike at Qana. "Resistance, Resistance," the protestors chanted, and a few of them, armed with clubs and tools picked up from nearby construction sites, attacked the building until the crowd was calmed by Muslim clerics. The Lebanese Army watched passively. By contrast, the turnout was tiny later that night at a peaceful candle light vigil in Martyr's Square...
...Lebanese behind Hizballah, according to polls. And the massacre at Qana may have sealed the bond. "Every house being destroyed is our house, every dead hero is our brother, every kid being killed by an American bomb is our kid," said Dr. Naya Izzaldine, 40, a pathologist from West Beirut and a Sunni Muslim. On Monday, the airwaves are already filled with songs about Qana and someone with access to a huge color printer produced a super-sized image depicting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with bloody fangs, and hung it from a highway overpass in the center of town...