• Asidonhopo
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    17 hours ago

    Baalbek? That’s an important archaeological site, horrible to think of the destruction of the world’s history for this bullshit war, in a way that will match or exceed the Iraq war. US troops set up on the ruins of a temple complex in Baghdad and immediately started shoveling sand into bags to make fortifications. Truly a disgusting loss to our shared humanity.

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      10 hours ago

      If people liked ISIS bombing ancient heritage monuments then they’re gonna love Israel

      Not sure how many people like ISIS but let’s hope for Israel it’s a lot.

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      Baalbak is a city with a lot of targets during any period of bombing. Mercifully the temple complex site has never been hit and it hopefully stays that way.

      They’re not above it though. They hit the archeological site in Sour/Tyre in the 2024 airstrikes though, and even though dozens of people and medics were murdered by then, my blood boiled white hot after that, I was angrier about it than the mass murder. I think the precision strikes on ambulances came after and those pissed me off even more though.

      It’s never a good sign when you have an internal conflict about whether you’re a good person or not because you’re more mad about a bunch of old rocks getting pulverized than people like you being murdered.

      They’ll fucking do it, they don’t care. They don’t think we’re people, they obviously don’t think our heritage matters, especially not in a poor city they routinely terrorize.