{"id":153253,"date":"2015-05-22T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153253"},"modified":"2015-05-21T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:38:40","slug":"fall-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fall-palmyra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>UNESCO HQ, Beirut<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur) has been in existence for 30 centuries, and is one of the world\u2019s most cherished archeological and cultural heritage sites. Will it be cease to exist within the next 30 days?<\/p>\n<p>According to Da\u2019ish (ISIS), the answer is yes and they will see to it, for the reason that religious obligations in their jaded views require the destruction of pre-Islamic pagan idols, which they view as akin to devil worship.<\/p>\n<p>According to some Syrian government officials ,and also Irina Bolova, UNESCO\u2019s Director of World Heritage Sites List, which Palmyra has been on since 2013, the answer is also yes-<em>unless. <\/em>She means <em>unless<\/em> the UN takes immediate action under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter and immediately acts, with force if necessary (it is) to save Palmyra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is very bad,\u2019 Syria\u2019s antiquities chief, Dr. Mamoun Abdel-Karim told reporters yesterday. \u2019If only five members of IS go into the ancient buildings, they\u2019ll destroy everything. Our fear is also for the museum and large monuments that cannot be moved. Dr. Abdel-Karim is calling on the US-led military coalition against IS to prevent the group destroying the ancient site. \u201cThis is the entire world\u2019s battle!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>And so it is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/05\/21\/the-fall-of-pamyra\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-fall-of-pamyra\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNESCO HQ, Beirut. The ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur) has been in existence for 30 centuries, and is one of the world\u2019s most cherished archeological and cultural heritage sites. Will it be cease to exist within the next 30 days? According to Da\u2019ish (ISIS), the answer is yes and they will see to it, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}