Adding Ecological Insult to Bodily Injury


The power plant is located 20km south of Beirut. I found it on google earth and have highlighted it for you at right. You can make out Beirut's airport and Beirut beyond that at the top of the satellite pic.
International assistance is ready and waiting, but unable to reach the affected area because of Israel's maritime and air blockade, and disruption of ground transportation infrastructure.
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There are many countries who have suffered the tragic consequences of war; the Japanese did not immigrate to America and start opening fire on Americans for what happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but Arabs seem to think theirs should spill into Canada, Britain and the U.S. There seems to be something inherently primitive and uncivilized about Arab Muslims no matter which part of the world they live in.
The demographic shift of Israeli ethnicity created by the higher birth rate among Arabs may be the key to the preservation of Israel over the coming decades.