´óÏó´«Ã½ in the news, Friday
| 09:56 UK time, Friday, 21 July 2006
The Times: A columnist on the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s coverage of the Middle East crisis: "Both the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and ITV have staged feelgood family reunions by satellite during news bulletins." ()
The Independent: "Lebanon's PM has enough problems but, even so, he might have been distracted by one trivial, nagging question when he met the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Middle East editor this week..." ()
Comments
I have yet to hear any reporter on TV or radio ask this question of Lebanese refugees
Do you have dual nationality with the U.S. (or England, or whatever)
and
what the hell are you doing here, especially with youn children?
If their most-of-the-time residence is Lebanon, and they are also a citizen of Lebanon, why should that opportunistic citizenship in the U.S. or England or elsewhere be able to be exploited whenever they get into trouble?
I'm not sure their home countries should have to spend all this effort to rescue people of dual nationality. Tourists are one thing, but even they have no claim if a country has been officially labeled as risky visiting.
The only trivial nagging question the prime minister of Lebanon should have been thinking about is whether or not he wants to have a country left when this war is over. What it boils down to is whether or not he has married his nation so inextricably to Iran's hopeless cause to destroy Israel and the United States that he is willing to put his entire nation's survival at risk to become part of it. It's a cause which has nothing to do with Lebanon's own national interests. Apparantly he didn't give it much thought because so far he has come up with the wrong answer and the time for him to reconsider and change his mind is rapidly running out if it hasn't expired already.