{"id":31780,"date":"2026-03-15T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=31780"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:41:54","slug":"sirenen-ueber-dem-golf-und-wir-zaehlen-die-toten-wie-wetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/sirenen-ueber-dem-golf-und-wir-zaehlen-die-toten-wie-wetter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirens over the Gulf - and we count the dead like weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

War is not the opposite of peace. It is its condition. Peace is only war resting - holding its breath, counting its shots, searching for its next pretext. We call it stability. We call it normality. We call it everything except what it is: a pause in killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beirut, March 15, 2026<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fadi stands in front of the remains of his tent on the beach in Beirut. It is the second time in two days that the storm has destroyed it. Next to him lie new mattresses that he bought after the last storm. They are already soaked again. He says he now only hopes to be able to return home. Only there, he says, can one truly come to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beirut, March 15, 2026<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More than 830,000 people are fleeing in Lebanon. One in seven residents of the country. In Haret Hreik, a suburb in the south of Beirut, collapsed concrete slabs, bent steel beams and torn plastic tarps lie on the streets. Smoke rises from rubble. Small fires continue to burn. Since March 2, 826 people have been killed, including 106 children. These figures cannot currently be verified. Death knows no database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beirut, March 15, 2026<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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People fleeing<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Many right wing parties face a contradiction in the Iran war that they do not want to name. Outwardly: hard rhetoric against Islamist regimes, demonstrative closeness to Israel and the United States, the attitude of strength. Inwardly: the same policies that produce the refugee movements against which they mobilize domestically. Anyone who wants to close the border at the same time does not have two positions. He has one: power without consequence. Escalation without responsibility. One sets the house on fire and complains about the smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The person who flees, for example from Beirut, does not ask about the party line of the one who built the bomb. He flees. And the question that no one asks: who stacked the wood - and who profits from the fact that it burns?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Tel Aviv<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the same time Iranian rockets strike Tel Aviv. Twenty three impact sites on a single Sunday. In Bnei Brak a residential building was hit, windows torn out, one resident injured by glass fragments. In Ramat Gan paramedics treated a man with blast injuries. Municipal workers shortly afterward cleared an impact site where cluster munitions had detonated - small explosives that can kill days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n