{"id":66477,"date":"2015-11-16T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=66477"},"modified":"2015-11-16T05:57:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T05:57:24","slug":"beirut-and-paris-a-tale-of-two-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/11\/beirut-and-paris-a-tale-of-two-terror-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where was the global sympathy when a terror attack left at least 44 people dead and 239 others injured in Lebanon?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Unlike with the Paris attack, the world was silent when Lebanese mourned their dead after a deadly suicide attack killed at least 44 people and injured hundreds in Beirut a day earlier. | Photo: AFP<\/p><\/div>\n

14 Nov 2015 – <\/em>As news arrived yesterday of terror attacks<\/a> in Paris that ultimately left more than 120 people dead, U.S. President Barack Obama characterized<\/a> the situation as \u201cheartbreaking\u201d and an assault \u201con all of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presidential sympathy had been conspicuously absent the previous day when terror attacks in Beirut<\/a> left more than 40 dead. Predictably, Western media and social media were much less vocal about the slaughter in Lebanon. And while many of us are presumably aware, to some degree, of the discrepancy in value assigned to people\u2019s lives on the basis of nationality and other factors, the back-to-back massacres in Beirut and Paris served to illustrate without a doubt the fact that, when it comes down to it, \u201call of humanity\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily qualify as human.<\/p>\n

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#Paris<\/a> is a tragedy. #Beirut<\/a> is a tragedy. And the fact that Beirut 'matters' less than Paris is a tragedy. #\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aya Chebbi (@aya_chebbi) November 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n