Nice piece from @ABarnardNYT on Beirut's feeling of forgottenness in the aftermath of the Paris attacks: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-attacks-paris.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region&_r=0 …
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@emptywheel@jilliancyork I was thinking of people's perception that suucide bomb killing 37 is normal occurrence in beirut: it's not -
@ABarnardNYT I think, in an article about "people's perception," such slips are quite interesting. I didn't have it.@jilliancyork -
@emptywheel@jilliancyork fair enough. no dispute from me: Israeli "dahiyeh doctrine" airstrikes in 2006 killed more & devastated civilians. -
@emptywheel@jilliancyork but again RE what's "normal", 2006=9yrs ago, dahiyeh "built back better," pretty safe lately, bustling. bomb=shock
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