The best analysis I have ever read on the tragedy that is Lebanon, a tragedy that is yesterday, today, and perhaps forever. It is so sad and it pains me deeply. Read: A farewell to Beirut by Robert Fisk in Beirut.

Beirutis are tough people and are not easily moved. But at the end of last week, many of them were overcome by a photograph in their daily papers of a small girl, discarded like a broken flower in a field near the border village of Ter Harfa, her feet curled up, her hand resting on her torn blue pyjamas, her eyes —” beneath long, soft hair —” closed, turned away from the camera.

She had been another “terrorist” target of Israel and several people, myself among them, saw a frightening similarity between this picture and the photograph of a Polish girl lying dead in a field beside her weeping sister in 1939.

Will someone, anyone, speak-up to stop it? I’ll be calling my elected representatives, if only to give voice to the voiceless.