{"id":24663,"date":"2023-04-03T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=24663"},"modified":"2023-04-03T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:03:56","slug":"eighty-months-since-the-beirut-port-blast-isnt-it-sad-when-hope-for-justice-seems-to-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/eighty-months-since-the-beirut-port-blast-isnt-it-sad-when-hope-for-justice-seems-to-fade\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighty months since the Beirut port blast: isn&#8217;t it sad when hope for justice seems to fade?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24664\" width=\"399\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.jpg 930w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut-720x480.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 85vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While driving on the New Brunswick Trans-Canada highway yesterday, Bambi listened to music and sang to songs of different languages and themes. One of these melodies was Fairuz&#8217; famous <em>Li Beirut<\/em> song, which brought tears to her eyes. Indeed, she could not help not to think of all the tragedies in her birthplace throughout history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Beirut&#8217;s surrealistic yet still unaccountable recent tragedies of criminal neglect was its port blast, which caused 218 deaths (including toddlers), 7500 injuries, 300, 000 homeless people, 150+ permanently disabled individuals, including children who lost their eyes, over 3\/4 of destruction in the Lebanese capital, 4 hospitals totally destroyed, US$15, 000, 000, 000  worth of damage, trauma of that doomed August 4, 2020, and massive migration around the  world, including Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the memory of Beirut&#8217;s innocent victims be eternal.  As a musical tribute to all of them, this post will feature <em>Li Beirut<\/em> with Mr. Omar Kamal&#8217;s soothing voice. The<em> Youtube<\/em> video shown below includes beautiful pictures of the Lebanese capital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Li Beirut - Omar Kamal | \u0644\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a - \u0639\u0645\u0631 \u0643\u0645\u0627\u0644  (LIVE IN CONCERT)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDY7WNW718g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/heart-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24665\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/heart-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/heart-4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 85vw, 227px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While driving on the New Brunswick Trans-Canada highway yesterday, Bambi listened to music and sang to songs of different languages and themes. One of these melodies was Fairuz&#8217; famous Li Beirut song, which brought tears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24670,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions\/24670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}