{"id":2964,"date":"2006-09-05T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/lebanon-destruction-update\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T23:48:20","slug":"lebanon-destruction-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/lebanon-destruction-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Destruction Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the last story we reported said that Lebanon&#8217;s reconstruction cost would be around $2.5 billion &#8212; a number I thought was far too conservative. A 12-story building in my neighborhood would cost at least $20 million to build, if not more. It can&#8217;t be less than a quarter as much to build the same thing in Lebanon. Considering many thousands of buildings were totally flattened or damaged beyond repair, not to mention bridges, highways, the airport, hospitals &#8212; and I could go on &#8212; the cost had to be way higher. I see today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/news_article.aspx?storyid=133838\">an article<\/a> which is otherwise lower news, this paragraph:<\/p>\n<p><em>The cost to rebuild Lebanon is at least $7 billion. More than 130,000 homes were destroyed or damaged in the short war. Unemployment has doubled, to 20%. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>$7 billion still seems pretty low, but I guess we&#8217;ll only know once it&#8217;s done. With unemployment doubled, domestic sources of funding will be harder to dig up. It&#8217;s frustrating to realize that all I can do is wish them well, even as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington-report.org\/html\/us_aid_to_israel.htm\">my money helped destroy their lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the last story we reported said that Lebanon&#8217;s reconstruction cost would be around $2.5 billion &#8212; a number I thought was far too conservative. A 12-story building in my neighborhood would cost at least $20 million to build, if not more. It can&#8217;t be less than a quarter as much to build the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}