Arithmetic of Relief

Official word announces that head UN do-gooder Jan Egeland is starting his negotiations with a request for 5 humanitarian corridors into Lebanon.

In his press conference, Egeland responded to a question addressing Hezbollah's assurances of cooperation with relief efforts and claims that:

"at present, his Office had only indirect contacts with Hizbollah, but, of course, it was necessary 'to reach out to them to say that they should not specialize in undermining the security of their own people, but enable the agencies to help the civilian population'."

Sounds to me like Alan Dershowitz is sitting at Egeland's negotiating table.

Here's the arithmetic of relief I've gathered so far.
Official requests for aid corridors:
1. Coastal road from Aarida in the north to Beirut
2, 3, 4. Entry points for sea cargo at Tripoli, Beirut and Tyre
5. Rafic Hariri international airport (Beirut), for international and domestic transport of supplies. Note this airport is currently non-operative since the number of daily bombs exceeds the number of daily flights.

Actual movements and actual aid:
- Corridor #1: lifting of the naval blockade for 22 (Fri) + 14 (Sat) tons of aid at Beirut's port
- Spain offers 2.5 million, and Russia and Jordan offer amount TBD.
- Jordan also offers a corridor, access point TBD.

Let's not forget those fleeing to Syria. WHO reports a camp of at least 500 Lebanese refugees in Damascus. The airport must be a zoo. I wonder if the ATM is working at all-- both ATMs were out when I tried to get USD a week ago and the Commercial Bank of Syria representative just shrugged his shoulders when I asked when it would be working. Another reason for Syria's switch to the Euro?