{"id":49450,"date":"2016-03-28T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49450"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:47:26","slug":"palmyra-the-grief-and-the-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49450","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra, the grief and the joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — “the landscape, in general, is in good shape” says Syrian antiquities chief Abdulkarim ]
\n.<\/p>\n

First, let me DoubleQuote<\/strong> the joy and the grief of Palmyra<\/strong>, in the form of the Temple of Bel<\/strong> before —<\/p>\n

\"Temple<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— and after IS wrought its iconoclastic destruction on that site sacred to its original devotees, and sacred also (seculo-sacred?) to contemporary humanists and historians —<\/p>\n

\"Temple<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In that pairing of grief and joy, the grief predominates.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Palmyra, though, has now been retaken from IS, and we can accordingly make a further DoubleQuote<\/strong> in images, this time moving from grief to joy, with the joy predominant, Alhamdulillah!<\/strong><\/em> — pairing the “after” image from the previous pair —<\/p>\n

\"Temple<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— with this image of the theater at Palmyra — recently used by IS for executions, though thankfully not by them demolished —<\/p>\n

\"Palmyra<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— thus returning a measure of joy after so tragic an episode.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
  • Daily Mail<\/strong>, ISIS show off their destruction of 2,000-year-old temple at Palmyra<\/a>\n
  • BBC News<\/strong>, Syria civil war: Palmyra damage in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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