Word: beirutization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While the bombardment of Beirut airport makes front page news, small strikes like these are spreading disruption over a larger area. "The entire logistics of the country are coming to a halt," Minister of Public Works Mohammed Safadi told TIME...
...Supplies - fuel and drinking water especially - are running short, and there seems little immediate prospect of resupply from Beirut. U.N. staff are negotiating with Israel to grant safe passage to a resupply column and also to allow APCs to rescue trapped villagers looking to leave and transport casualties to hospitals. The response from the Israeli military, according to Strugar, "was not forthcoming...
Despite the relative quiet in Beirut on Tuesday, the jittery sense of desperation is getting worse. The Westerners are being evacuated, but that's not necessarily good news for the Lebanese staying put. Once the Westerners are gone, people on the streets wonder what will hold the Israelis back. The lull in the bombing, in fact, is widely seen as a deliberate break by the Israelis to allow the foreign nationals...
...Outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in east Beirut, Abdou Shafai Ismael, 38, from Sudan, has a story that contrasts sharply with that of the American tourists and students being floated to safety on Norwegian cruise ships. While they may complain about having to pay back the U.S. government for the costs of their evacuations, from the darting look in his eyes, I think Ismael would go to great lengths (perhaps questionable ones) in order to have a spot on a boat to Cyprus. Many of the 100 or so other men milling around...
...Beirut's poor and stateless have the U.N. to look after them, Beirut's rich and almost-rich can look after themselves. The signs of a mass exodus of Lebanon's wealthy class are everywhere - and telling. The city's ATMs, which normally disburse both Lebanese pounds and American dollars, are now only spitting out the brightly colored pounds, a sign that those who could have already fled - and took their hard currency with them. I took out 1 million pounds today, about $670, but I worry about how long that will last. Even the Western Union is unable...