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Before and After in Aleppo
Topic Started: Jul 17 2016, 06:15 PM (178 Views)
George K
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https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10153625047761512

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Haaertz reports:

A video produced by Los Angeles resident David Wolfe showing the vast destruction since the outbreak of the civil war in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, has gone viral. Posted on Wolfe’s Facebook fan page, it has been viewed more than 11 million times and shared around a quarter million times on Facebook.

The photos used to put the video together are from the Bored Panda website, which noted that vast toll in human lives and the physical damage in Aleppo since 2012, including the city’s Old City, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.730736?v=E2A3BF45C22C858F9FC011BE498B507A

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Red Rice
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Wow. Just awful. But two things:

1) As bad as the physical damage is, what happened to the people has been far worse.

2) Even in the "before" photos, Aleppo looks sketchy. In the picture with the pool and palm trees, the surrounding buildings look like they've already been bombed.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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aleppo is known in the jewish world as the home of aleppo codex, the oldest manuscript of the torah...

for a fascinating account, for those that like old manuscripts....


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brenda
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And the Aleppo pepper. Don't forget the pepper.
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Mikhailoh
Jul 18 2016, 03:59 AM
Once you have had it you never will. It becomes a staple.
And who got you started on that stuff? ;)
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Mikhailoh
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A hooker with a heart of gold.
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bachophile
Jul 17 2016, 07:33 PM
aleppo is known in the jewish world as the home of aleppo codex, the oldest manuscript of the torah...

for a fascinating account, for those that like old manuscripts....


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That sounds fascinating. Downloaded.
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brenda
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Mikhailoh
Jul 18 2016, 06:29 AM
A hooker with a heart of gold.
:lol2:
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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Very sad. :( And for what reason????
Edited by taiwan_girl, Jul 18 2016, 06:26 PM.
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brenda
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Indeed, TG. I feel terrible for the folks who consider this their homeland. Sites that represent centuries of history have been destroyed.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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