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By: What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence « Mohammed Abbasi

What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence « Mohammed Abbasi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:20:21 +0000

[...] world, such as the little-known work of La’Onf in Iraq and the almost wholly unreported peacemaking efforts in Palestine and Israel. Undoubtedly, the deployment of nonviolence on a regional scale would [...]

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By: lujean Rogers

lujean Rogers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:36:23 +0000

The movie – we experienced that violence. Staying in Bethlehem one time, at predawn, we heard children and motors and sirens. We looked out from 2nd floor. A military jeep with two IDFs in it, kept circling a building where small children were getting sesame bread off a cart before school. Parents would push them against the wall when the jeeps came back around very fast, no purpose except to terrify, coming very close to the children. Grammar school age. We were shocked. That would never happen in the US and yet our country sent billions of dollars to Israel and this was Bethlehem, illegally occupied. That was just one horror we experienced – there were many others. It was also shocking that the IDF had to know many people had come to Bethlehem from the U.S. and other places, and yet they didn’t seem to care at all if anyone saw what they were doing. We came to find out what was happening because we kept hearing stories that were not in the US news reports. We never thought the situation would get worse because it was horrible when we were there. We went to several concentration camps, raw sewage running in narrow trenches through the narrow streets where children had to walk. Shacks put together with what they could find. Very little furniture as many of the homes had been bulldozed furnished when Israel confiscated them and forced people into those camps. We had to sit on the floor most of the time in those areas. We experienced several dangerous situations, visited the hospitals where many children were dying or badly injured by “rubber” bullets, thin rubber coating over a lead ball. Deadly. Husband, a radiologist read x-rays, seeing those bullets in bodies. We saw many on the ground where we’d walk where children had been shot at.

By: lujean Rogers

lujean Rogers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:21:47 +0000

Very nice article. Having been from Gaza to Lebanon several times with late physician husband,
it’s difficult to know that things are much worse than when we were there in the late 80s and early
90s. Our group raised the funds to move the Albert E. Glock library from a Jerusalem apartment to Beirzeit University. Dr. Glock was assassinated in the West Bank as he went to visit an assistant. Dr. Glock was an American citizen, archaeologist. His wife moved from the apartment to be with relatives in the United States. She tried to get the State Department to help solve the murder but nothing much was done for that American citizen.

By: What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence | Amauta

What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence | Amauta — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:45:23 +0000