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A lot of it comes down to proportionality.
Lebanon is 'other' - Asian, Muslim, brown, poor. So we get a column on page 6 of the paper.
France is 'people like us' - white, Christian, close, Western. So we get minute silences, tricolor buildings, Facebook hysteria.
The difference between the two reactions perhaps doesn't reflect too well on the reach of our empathy.