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Israeli Military in the Occupied Territories aka Palestinian Territories

VERY INFORMATIVE!!!  Right now I can only testify that the first 20 minutes of this film shows no physically gruesome photos or film but I seriously can't watch any more at this time because I am feeling nauseous and my eyes are filled with tears.  HOW CAN A SO-CALLED DEMOCRACY (THE USA) PAY FOR THIS? 

I have watched many films but this one is different because it is so many Israelis talking or maybe it is because it is not dead faces but faces with the torture they experienced right behind their eyes - you can see it in these young men - and just a sliver of a glance at the horrific, life altering torture and terror they experienced as a child or maybe it is just overload on the terrible things that are going on in so many places in the world that we hear about, just maybe. But whatever it is - I am weak and must turn in off - what A PARADISE I LIVE IN THAT I CAN TOUCH A BUTTON AND TURN IT OFF. 

ALLAH FORGIVE ME.

"Breaking the Silence" an ex-Israeli soldiers' organization is in the film, as well. The founder, Yehuda Shaul,

tells how he doesn't remember children in the West Bank because it was them (no matter what age) and us. I actually thought he was going to say that in the past they didn't do that to kids - I was wrong.
#FreePalestine #Israel #Terrorism #USAsupport #WestBank #Palestine #Gaza

Sectarian Violence in Egypt or is it the Temporary Government?

Summary of Video:
After their church was burned down, Coptic Christians took to the streets. The military was very brutal - shooting w/ live ammunition, tanks running over demonstrators, and horrible beatings. The Egyptian TV showed that the Christians were the aggressors. Response of the Egyptians: another demonstration with Christians and Muslims joining together in the streets chanting: "Muslims Christians are One!!!" It seems the temporary gov. may be trying the same tactics that Mubarak used by trying to get Egyptian to fight Egyptian... and now the people are trying to keep this from happening.


Egyptians Chant "Muslims Christians Are One" as Military Viciously Attacks Protest

Should or Shouldn't PALESTINE be Recognized by the United Nations

Palestinian Statehood Strategy Headed For U.N. Clash   

...we have had "peace talks for the last 20 years. Actually, three days ago, four days ago, we had the 18th anniversary of the Oslo Accords that were signed in 1993. What did we get as Palestinians in return of all the peace agreement that we made with Israel?   

Israel planting our territories with illegal settlements. Israel refusal to sit down engage with us in a genuine, meaningful negotiations to end the conflict. We have been urging the Israelis to talk about security and borders, and the Israeli government - for more than one reason - are adamant about refusing to sit down with the Palestinians to discuss an end to the conflict."

Jimmy Carter: 'No Downside' to Palestine Statehood 

Rebels Had Double Agent in Gadhafi's Security Force - Mahmoud Ben Jumaa tells his story

(Newser) – How did Libyan rebels take Tripoli with such apparent ease? It was thanks in part to men like Mahmoud Ben Jumaa, a senior member of Moammar Gadhafi’s personal security force and secret rebel agent, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since February, Ben Jumaa had been tipping resistance leaders in his neighborhood off to every arrest warrant he signed. “I directed one of the great oppressive organs of Gadhafi’s government,” he says. “And all the while, I was doing everything I could to make sure this revolution succeeded.”

Nor was Ben Jumaa alone; police commanders in his Fashloom neighborhood were part of the resistance as well, which is expected to make it easier to get police back on the streets. And when Ben Jumaa’s own name showed up on an arrest list a few weeks ago, it was another friend in the security forces who tipped him off, allowing him and his family to flee their home just hours before Gadhafi’s troops arrived.

Rebels Had Double Agent in Gadhafi's Security Force - Mahmoud Ben Jumaa tells his story

FLAGMAN - Ahmed El-Shahat scaled the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt

On Aug. 20, 2011, Ahmed El-Shahat, an Egyptian, risked his life by climbing up the outside of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo (approximately 23 stories). He was aiming to remove the Annoying flag of the Apartheid State of Israel.

Yesterday after Israel's citizens and soldiers were attacked in Southern Israel near the border with Egypt - Israel replied by attacking across the Egyptian border and this resulted in the killing of 5 Egyptian police officers. For two days now protests are being held outside of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. The protesters are demanding that the Israeli Ambassador in Egypt - go home.
Video of his Feat (Music in Arabic):



This is believed to be the same guy:

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Libyan Rebels getting closer to ousting Gaddafi one small city at a time.

The fight for Freedom in Libya is going well. The Rebels are inching closer, they have learned to be thorough and patient, and they remain steadfast through their loses. My God help this country to a quick victory, help those in charge to stay away from corruption and move forward to a Just Democracy, and help the people find a stable, secure Peace... God Willing.


Libyan rebels 'take control' of Brega - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Amazing Display by Rescued Whale | Eartheasy Blog

God has given the earth such wonderful splendor and this video footage of a Humpback Whale is inspirational and touching. Use less plastic, less plastic, and less plastic to help save our oceans. This whale was caught in a fishing net but plastic is increasingly found in the stomachs of whales.
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Why did Tunisia and Egypt fall so fast and Libya, Yemen, & Syria are not?

I have wondered why Libya, Yemen, and Syria can't do what the Tunisians and Egyptians did. I am very afraid for the Syrians - I fear he may do what his father did and massacre over 100,000 people. God Forbid.

While the military sided against the dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, the situation in Libya, Yemen and Syria is complicated by the fact that their regimes' militia, special forces and republican guards have been better organised, better armed and better financed - and hence more potent and in control of their national armies.
These "mini armies" are headed by, and are loyal to, influential family members of the regimes that have long groomed them to fight in defence of the regime, not for state or society.
These soldiers' indoctrination and privilege blind them from noticing the changing reality. Instead, they continue to kill and destroy their countries to try to save their expired regimes.
As these ruling families monopolised security and business, they've emptied their countries of independent state agents capable of taking a neutral or mediating position. This has led to direct and ugly confrontations between people and the escalation of brute force.
Be that as it may, Libya, Yemen and Syria face complete economic shutdown, economic sanctions, and poor supplies. There is a limit to their resources.

Read full article by Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, answers questions about the current escalation - and what some see as setbacks - surrounding the uprisings in Libya, Syria, and Yemen.  A rude Arab awakening - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Somali women fleeing famine preyed on by rapists - USATODAY.com

This is such a heart wrenching story of strength, fear, helplessness, and struggle. I can't imagine life like this. I pray that all of the Aid gets to those in need and that help comes to bring peace that surmounts the war and pain.
Somali women fleeing famine preyed on by rapists - USATODAY.com

9/11 created a suspicion of Muslims based on the actions of a fanatical few, is this what it's like to walk a mile in the shoes of stereotype?

After Sept. 11, many of us Muslims felt isolated and afraid, I think esp. for those of us born in the US. I was mortified by what I had witnessed on TV, I was initially afraid to venture outside, and I found that I was afraid of every car and door that had the American Flag. I am part of the American Fabric, I have always been grateful for being born here in America, I used to even get stares and comments when at a ball game and the National Anthem played because I always cried, and I have always prayed for the whole world to have the kind of life that I enjoy.

It took about 2 years to get life a litlle bit back to the way it was before that dreadful day. During those 2 years, I couldn't get away from the TV without feeling a little panicky, at times I had to take sleeping pills in order to go to sleep, and one of the strange things that I regret the most that changed was I stopped reading to my kids at bedtime. I just couldn't seem to be able to sit down or focus or maybe it was staying away from the TV, I really don't know. I began to drink coffee throughout the day (I was never a coffee drinker before) and I was on defense mode outside (well, I still do this). Anyway, my main point is that people don't think that we (Muslims) were affected by what happened. Well, many of us were in ways that are understood and many ways that just don't make sense; but we were affected none-the-less.

MY country was attacked, I was mourning the loss of life, and I was as angry as the next woman. But MY religion was also attacked and in many ways is still being attacked.

I believe that this article can help others see a little of what we felt. Below is a snippet. READ the full article: 'Christian terrorist'? Norway case strikes debate | Latest National Headlines

When the "enemy" is different, an outsider, it's easier to draw quick conclusions, to develop stereotypes. It's simply human nature: There is "us," and there is "them." But what happens when the enemy looks like us - from the same tradition and belief system? That is the conundrum in the case of Norway and Anders Behring Brevik, who is being called a "Christian extremist" or "Christian terrorist."McVeigh and Breivik were both "good-looking young Caucasians, self-enlisted soldiers in an imagined cosmic war to save Christendom ... and both were Christian terrorists," Juergensmeyer wrote. In a column for Salon.com, Alex Pareene said Breivik is not an American-style evangelical, but he listed other connections to Christianity. "All of this says 'Christian terrorist,'" Pareene wrote. Such claims drew strong resistance. "Breivik is not a Christian. That's impossible. No one believing in Jesus commits mass murder," Bill O'Reilly said on his Fox News show. That makes sense to Joyce Dubensky, CEO of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. She said it also makes sense that "millions of Muslims say Osama bin Laden is not a Muslim, that no one who believes in the prophet Muhammad commits mass murder." "We need to hear Bill O'Reilly, but we also need to hear and understand the voices of the overwhelming Muslim majority around the world who condemn those who are terrorists in the name of their faith," she said.

Syria's 'secret doctors' risk their own lives - CNN.com

"People refuse to go to government hospitals because they will be arrested and if they die we cannot take their body." He explains. Families, he claims can only collect the body of their loved ones after signing a document saying they were killed by armed gangs.

There is graphic Video with an interview of the founder of the "Damascus Doctors" showing very injured people that were peacefully demonstrating for freedom when the military attacked.

The Syrian government has consistently maintained that it does not target peaceful demonstrations, blaming the violence on armed gangs who infiltrated the demonstrators, with the intent to set up an Al Qaeda style Islamic caliphate in Syria.

• Underground network of 60 medics call themselves the "Damascus Doctors"
• They set up secret, hidden clinics in neighborhoods where demonstrations take place
• People injured in demonstrations use the network for fear of arrest if they visit hospitals
• Network has a Facebook page, their intent not only to save lives, but to expose regime's crimes

Syria's 'secret doctors' risk their own lives - CNN.com

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War and drought compounding Somalia exodus | Reuters

"The cluster of crowded camps scattered around Dolo Ado, Ethiopia, now shelter almost 100,000, but officials say the deadly cocktail of daily bloodshed and a ruinous regional drought will force even more to arrive in the coming months.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and Ethiopia have set up a cluster of camps at Dolo Ado to accommodate the influx of refugees, which officials say has now topped some 1,600 people each day.
"This is the worst humanitarian disaster we are facing in the world," UNHCR head Antonio Guterres said during a trip to the area on Wednesday. "We have one-fourth of the population of Somalia displaced."The number of people in need of food assistance across the region is expected to rise to 10 million from previous forecasts of 6 million, the World Food Programme has said."
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350,000 Somalis fleeing drought

In Pictures: Somali refugees arrive in Dadaab - In Pictures - Al Jazeera English

This is due to DROUGHT. We Need to help and help now.