OIL With Your Tabouli
My wonderful cousin sent these "before and after" pictures of the Israeli-made oil spill the runs the coast of Lebanon. Isn't there something called environmental or ecological terrorism? Weren't the US government and people up in arms (literally) after Saddam Hussein started to light Iraq's oilfields on fire and dump petroleum into the Gulf? The disaster is even more heartbreaking and horrific when you know the environmental state of the Mediterranean in general...which ain't good.
Let's say that this environmental disaster was not planned by the Israel military. In their own legalistic language, they call it collateral damage. There is other legalistic language that is appropriate here: RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT, LIABILITY, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, and INTENTIONAL WRONGDOING. My attorney-mother might be proud to hear me recite the requirements for criminal negligence. I believe that those requirements are:
1. A legal duty exists for the care to another person. This, I would say, is international conventions on human rights and the rules of war (that is, what is the acceptable behavior toward your enemy, the "another person").
2. This legal duty is breached.
3. The plaintiff must have suffered damages.
4. The plaintiff's damages must have been "proximately caused by the breach of duty".
Guilty. Guilty.
Guilty. Guilty.
[My cousin also sent me an article, which if found reprinted with more pictures at:
http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/08/lebanese_oil_sl.php] The "before" image is taken by photographer George Azar.
posted by Stephen Sheehi at 2:54 PM
2 Comments:
how horrific to see these images. It is so heartbreaking, heartwrenching, just every negative adjective that i can think of. Is there any idea as to how long it might take to RESTORE the water, the beaches, if in fact there is a specific and efficient way to do so? My heart is breaking. it really is. Thank you, once again for shedding light on issues such as this, a lot of activists tend to ignore or forget about environmental repercussions.
btw, i tried to go to the link that you posted but it is not working. Could you please re-post it just in case there was an error in the url? Thank you
Here is the site for the full article on the oil spill and what currently is being done.
I think it is a weird twist, that they are using the oil dredged from the spill caused by the Israelies to repair the roads destroyed by the Israelies.
http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/08/lebanese_oil_sl.php
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