The Israeli army launched several air strikes on Lebanon’s historic southern port city of Tyre, known in Arabic as Sour, on Wednesday.

Israel says it is bombing the city due to military actions by Lebanese group Hezbollah, without providing evidence.

Sour is said to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. One of the ancient Phoenician cities, it is from Sour that queen Dido, known locally as Elissar, is believed to have left her homeland to found the Carthaginian empire in present-day Tunisia.

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    Erasure of culture, oh neat they’re getting ready for a second genocide. I wonder how many need to happen before someone stops them.

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        And there aren’t any in the middle east, at least for most definitions of “white”. Maybe Turkey. But that’s quite a distance from Israel, and they’re in NATO.

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          I’d consider Lebanese and Persians white, but that’s a weirdly uncommon stance in the west.

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            Whiteness is an exclusionary concept, and has continually changed depending on who is allowed within the ‘ingroup’

            It’s always been used as a justification for violence by otherizing and dehumanizing people, particularly the victims of Colonialism, Neo-colonialism, and Imperialism

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              It sure would be nice to have a conversation on the internet through a non-American lens for once. Your cultural imperialism is suffocating.

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                I can’t control the realities of American Imperialism. That is driven by capital interests. The Consequences of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone has been a great resource to understand how. I can only make what impact I can with my limited influence

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                  > “It’s impossible to have a conversation without Americans making it about themselves”

                  > “Oh, have you tried reading this book by two Americans?”

                  > MFW

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    I heard that hezbollah was hiding gold bars, diamonds, heavy weaponry, and worst of all journalists in the sea. Gotta bomb that. \s