Last week I saw a phenomenally touching film at the Institute du Monde Arab called Zozo about a lebanese kid who became an orphan during the lebanese civil war. the film was preceeded by a letter by the director who was supposed to present the film in paris, but who for obvious reasons could not come. the scenes of the civil war could not be more similar to the current war raging in lebanon. the impact on the civilian families does not seem to be any different either. as Zozo, a 10 year old kid, becomes an orphan and immigrates to denmark to live with his grandparents, i could not help but feel guilty - for all the lebanese kids who have become orphans and for all the human loss in lebanon. at the end, I almost felt guilty for israel's current war. it was just the following day that i realised why the IDF has caused so much damage in Beirut so far - the fact that hezbollah has been storing missiles within civilian appartments. the israeli government does a really lousy job of publicizing these fact, of making the world aware of the reasons for their actions. we should feel hurt for all the lebanese dying or being injured in this war, but with so little real information as to why these rocket attacks continue, we might end up feeling guity. after zozo, I certainly did.

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