{"id":32351,"date":"2025-06-06T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=32351"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:12:08","slug":"beirut-doesnt-it-deserve-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/06\/beirut-doesnt-it-deserve-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut: doesn’t it deserve better?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictures of Beirut taken by Bambi end of May 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Bambi remains fascinated by how Will, her dear friend and fellow Sackville citizen, kindly warned her about the threats of the latest imminent attacks on Beirut from out of Canada before she heard about the warnings herself (still visiting her family in Beirut). Thanks to him for his digital quickness, online savviness, and for his concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This being said, it was deeply<\/span> heart-breaking for her to watch the night of horror on TV and witness, once again, the suffering of people. She also smelled what seemed like a fire (roughly a 10-minute-drive away) while chatting with her sister who was hearing the scary sounds (roughly a 5-minute-drive away). She remained glued in front of the TV, watching scared people fleeing on foot or in motor vehicles before the air raids. At all times, such a hopeless scene is tragic to watch. It is even more so on the eve of a “Eid” [Feast] where people are supposed to be celebrating, not running for their lives and losing loved ones or their apartments. May the Adha Eid’s blessings and joys, on pause yesterday night, resume in people’s surviving homes and aching hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of note, Bambi still does not know if there were any casualties. She could not find any stats on injuries or deaths in the online Lebanese media this morning. Did the attacked buildings truly include drone factories, as pretended by the attacker? And if so, was it fair or wise to destroy them in this manner? And again if so, is it fair and wise to produce them among the innocents? And if not, why the lies and the cruelty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these questions and Bambi does not understand the complex games of wars, military or political, among the word’s big nations. It is neither her expertise, nor her interest. She only knows that she loves her birth country, especially its charming capital, with ALL its people. Indeed, she prays for the safety and dignity of all the innocent people caught in the middle of fire and of collective insanity. Of course, beyond the borders of tiny Lebanon, she also prays for the safety of all the innocent people everywhere, and whomever they are, without any exception. Enough of wars, fear, hatred, and retaliations. How to break the endless cycles of violence in the Middle East? What about finally working for peace and thus for the will of life and even the will of love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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