Surviving - and Leaving - Beirut

"BEIRUT — I’m beginning to realize how isolated we we might be once the Western nationals leave Lebanon…

From the Westerners lining the streets around Beirut’s port waiting to be evacuated to Beirut’s Christian residents absorbing their neighborhood’s first direct hit, the city’s besieged residents must have felt a most unwelcome sense of deja vu Wednesday.

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