‘Are they going to give us a home in Texas?’

FATIMA Haider remembers the day her family rushed to help survivors of a bomb that destroyed the US embassy next to her childhood home in Beirut.

“Bring me the newspapers, I’ll show you pictures of my brother pulling Americans from under the rubble,” she said.

Now her home in southern Lebanon has been turned to rubble by the Israeli military and her husband has been killed in a war that she says the United States is encouraging Israel to wage war on Hezbollah.