 UNITY UNDER SIEGE: Images of Beirut and Gaza grow eerily similar as the Lebanese and Palestinians face the most brutal rampage their lands have suffered in recent memory. Telling the world it has "the right to defend itself", Israel is in fact intentionally ravaging residential areas and key state infrastructure in overwhelming strikes designed to break the will of the two peoples. A cameraman films destruction in a residential area in east Beirut (left) while a Palestinian policeman stands by the destroyed Foreign Ministry building in Gaza (right) (photos: AFP) parent page (20 - 26 July 2006, issue #804) |