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From the Beirut Daily Star:

Bombing Milk and Medicine 

"Israel switched gears in its military campaign against Lebanon Monday and Tuesday, launching a series of debilitating air strikes against privately owned factories throughout the country and dealing a devastating blow to an economy already paralyzed by a week of hits on residential areas and crucial infrastructure.

The production facilities of at least five companies in key industrial sectors - including the country's largest dairy farm, Liban Lait; a paper mill; a packaging firm and a pharmaceutical plant - have been disabled or completely destroyed. Industry insiders say the losses will cripple the economy for decades to come. 

"I think the picture will be much worse than we can possible imagine when the whole thing ends, but the direct damage from yesterday's attacks to the industrial sector alone will take years to recover from," said Wajid al-Bisri, the vice-president of the Lebanese Association of Industrialists (LAI)." 

 Dairy farms, pharmaceutical plants?

To get the facts about what's really going on in the Middle East, one must read international news.  For example, Fox News reported that Israeli missiles hit a terrorist convoy, showing footage provided by IDF of burning vehicles on a bombed-out highway. The rest of the world's press, however, is reporting that this convoy was in actuality a NGO humanitarian effort and instead of weapons the trucks were carrying food, medicine and water to civilians in ravaged southern Lebanon.

History will show that the 2006 July War on the nation of Lebanon is a crime against humanity.