Southerners defiant about potential war August 30, 2013 01:05 AM By Mohammed Zaatari The Daily Star MARJAYOUN/ BINT JBEIL, Lebanon: Abu Said Anzani isn’t enthusiastic about the outbreak of a regional conflict, as he believes that Israel will seize the opportunity to take revenge against Lebanon for what he called its defeat in the 2006 war. “The war will reach us because we emerged victorious from the 2006 war,” the shepherd said. “The war is difficult and I’m afraid that if we join it, we won’t know how to get out of it. I was displaced from here for around two decades, and I don’t wish to do that again,” he told The Daily Star, pointing with his amputated arm to his farm, which remains damaged from the Israeli assault back in 2006. Anzani, in his 60s, lost some of his left arm and some fingers from his right hand during the 1973 war, launched by Syria and Egypt against Israel with the aim of liberating the occupied Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula, then under Israeli occupation. Read more: dailystar.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Aug-30/229291-southerners-defiant-about-potential-war.ashx#ixzz2dPYFjNnb (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: dailystar.lb)
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:20:43 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015