[louhike]

The thing is you can expect the same from people in Beirut, they will lack empathy with people in the west. It needs effort to have equal empathy to someone you have nothing in common than someone having the same kind of life than you.

[mkempe]

For context, people danced and celebrated in the streets of Lebanon and various other Arab countries when the towers were destroyed in NYC.

[cholantesh]

Specifically, a lot of Palestinian Arabs celebrated. The most widely aired footage was from a Lebanese refugee camp that houses Palestinians. In many other places, mass vigils were held, most notably in Tehran.

[philh]

I'd be curious what the media coverage was like outside of the west. What was it like in Lebanon itself? In Japan? In Israel and in Palestine? India? Morocco? South Africa? Argentina?