All three lost their lives in a double suicide attack in Beirut on Thursday, along with 40 others, and much like the scores who died a day later in Paris, they were killed at random, in a bustling urban area, while going about their normal evening business.
The consecutive rampages were both claimed by the Islamic State.
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But for some in Beirut, that solidarity was mixed with anguish over the fact that just one of the stricken cities — Paris — received a global outpouring of sympathy akin to the one lavished on the United States after the 9/11 attacks.
Facebook offered users a one-click option to overlay their profile pictures with the French tricolor, a service not offered for the Lebanese flag
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WHEN my people died, no country bothered to light up its landmarks in the colors of their flag,” Elie Fares, a Lebanese doctor, wrote on his blog. “When my people died, they did not send the world into mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in THOSE parts of the world.”
In fact, while Beirut was once synonymous with violence, when it went through a grinding civil war a generation ago,
it has not had a bombing this deadly since that conflict ended in 1990.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/wo...pan-abc-region
