“When my people died, no country bothered to light up its landmarks in the colors of their flag,” Elie Fares, a Lebanese doctor, wrote on his blog. “When my people died, they did not send the world into mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in those parts of the world.” The implication, numerous Lebanese commentators complained, was that Arab lives mattered less. Either that, or that their country — relatively calm despite the war next door — was perceived as a place where carnage is the norm, an undifferentiated corner of a basket-case region.

Source: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten – The New York Times

I agree – all that was on CNN and every other American media outlet was the Paris attacks; these happened the day before! Maybe we shouldn’t have ignored them.