Abstract:
What was it like to live in Beirut during the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006? Lebanese agronomy professor and social activist Rami Zurayk spent the war in Beirut with his family, and War Diary: Lebanon 2006 is his intimate and vivid record of the 33-day onslaught. Throughout those 33 days, Israel's high-tech, lethal military, with US support, attempted to inflict such suffering on Lebanon's people that they would turn against Hizbullah, both a resistance movement and a political party with members in the national parliament. Zurayk explains why Israel's attack represents yet another episode in the West's decades-long project to subjugate the Arab world.