Not only the &#x27;West&#x27;, the &#x27;East&#x27; itself is desensitized to violence in the middle-east. It&#x27;s normal to see newspapers there going out of their way to show bloody and gruesome imagery to reflect how &quot;this is more violent than the last violent thing&quot;.<p>In a nutshell: Bombings, assassinations and airstrikes are business as usual in Beirut&#x2F;anywhere else in the middle-east and that&#x27;s why no one is shocked.