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2024-12-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

What Syria is made of. How a bomb planted by the French exploded 80 years later

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Posted by badanov 2024-12-11 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11148 views ] Top

#1 And now, BBC view

"Jewish, Muslim, Christian, they're all here, they want to believe they have a space now..."

Except they're not. In the 1940s, Syria's Jewish community was 40,000 strong. Today just an estimated 3 remain.

Good luck finding a Jew in Syria for an interview. pic.twitter.com/v2awkxg5GD
— Orly Goldschmidt 🎗️ (@Orlygoldschmidt) December 11, 2024

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-11 13:15|| 2024-12-11 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 A bunch of ignorant twits at the Beeb.

There are multiple everything sects everywhere in the region — Syria isn’t special. As far as I can tell, the descendants of everything mentioned in the Bible are still around, just no longer running things. Hittites and followers of John the Baptist, Samaritans, Sadducee Jews (though they call themselves something else now), even scions of the House of King David.

Anyone who isn’t suspicious that the new rulers aren’t going to impose Sharia Law on unbelievers sooner or later isn’t paying attention. Promising all unbelievers the status and rights of travelling merchants just means they won’t have equal rights under the law as permanent citizens — and as legal transients they’ll likely be forbidden to repair their religious buildings and train replacements for aging clerics, as a start. See the precarious situation of the native Coptic Christians in Egyptian villages in the upper Nile for what that looks like in a merely semi-totalitarian society.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-11 14:31|| 2024-12-11 14:31|| Front Page Top

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