the view from haifa
You know that scene in the Wizard of Oz, where suddenly the world is in COLOR, and nothing will ever be the same again, not even after it goes back to black and white? Some day, I’ll write about what it was like, that day when the internet stopped being all text, and pictures started filtering through. That day, I found out there were flowers in Baghdad, of course there were, just like anywhere else in the world, and I sat at my desk and cried.
Over the past year, the same thing has happened for video, regular people taking video and uploading it. Regular people, like the ones who live in Lebanon, or Israel.
I’ve been looking for regular people’s video documentation of the conflict in the Middle East on Youtube. I’ve not found anything from Beiruit or Lebanon so far, but I suspect this will change fast.
For now, here is one person’s view from Haifa, Israel, where the air raid sirens have been blaring. War sucks.