These men and women deserve the up most respect, dignity, honour and never to forget them today, tomorrow or even the future. They fought for our country to have freedom today as we know. The sacrifice they went through was astonishing, awful and so painful. Leaving a comrade behind is heart breaking to any serviceman or woman. They are alone but not in spirit.
Campaign Manager For Lt Colonel Berney Flowers Congressional Candidate Maryland District 3 Trump Presidential Task Force 2020 And Former NRC Small Business Advisor To George W. Bush
How will these elected officials ever ensure “Equality” anywhere in the world when they don’t firmly believe in it themselves? Such people are called Hypocrites about whom God says in the Quran:
Ch 2. The Cow
2:10 In their hearts is a disease, so God increases their disease, and they will have a painful retribution for what they have denied.
2:11 If they are told “Do not spread evil in the land,” they say, “But we are the reformers!”
2:12 No, they are the evildoers, but they do not perceive.
2:13 If they are told, “Believe as the people have believed,” they say,
“Shall we acknowledge as the fools have believed?” No, they are the fools but they do not know.
2:14 If they come across those who have believed, they say, “We believe,” and when they are alone with their devils they say, “We are with you, we were only mocking.”
2:15 God mocks them and leaves them prolonged in their transgression.
2:16 These are those who have purchased straying for guidance; their trade did not profit them, nor were they guided.
2:17 Their example is like one who lights a fire, so when it illuminates what is around him, God takes away his light and leaves him in the darkness not seeing.
2:18 Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not revert.
2:19 Or like a storm from the sky, in it are darkness, thunder, and lightning. They place their fingers in their ears from stunning noises out of fear of death, and God is aware of the ingrates.
2:20 The lightning nearly snatches away their sight, whenever it lights the path, they walk in it, and when it becomes dark for them, they stand. Had God willed, He would have taken away their hearing and their sight. God is capable of all things.
2:21 O people, serve your Lord who has created you and those before you that you may become God-conscious.
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A great speech at Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) in honour of #KofiAnnan “Reclaiming the right to peace”. 🕊️ Delivered by Volker Türk
“An absurd situation – there is no other way to put it. Summed up in just a few statistics. Global defence spending spiked in 2023 at almost USD 2.5 trillion at the same time the annual development financing gap widened to around USD 4 trillion. 4.8 billion people are poorer now than they were five years ago. More than 330 million children are forced to live in extreme poverty.”
“We have seen where double standards and a privileging of certain voices has brought us on human rights - on our entire system of global governance. As we work to re-invigorate international cooperation, we must nurture a new movement for peace. In the human rights movement, it has a committed ally.”
The message is clear!
We must #wagepeace ☮️ #standup4humanrights and #endwar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chez United Nations Human Rights
Wars are tearing our world apart w/ unimaginable cruelty & destruction. Far too many civilians are paying the ultimate price.
We must end this escalation of conflict & its unconscionable human toll.
Governments must stop short-term thinking, denial, confrontation & escalation- and instead choose to protect & advance human rights. It's the way to prevent & end wars, bringing us out of this nightmare.
https://lnkd.in/d7VAEC3F
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WHEN OVER 14,000 KIDS ARE KILLED & THEY ARE HALF OF THE DEAD, & THE OTHER HALF IS MOSTLY CIVILIAN MOTHERS, FATHERS, GRANDPARENTS & AID WORKERS —
IT IS NOT A “WAR” — IT IS GENOCIDE.
Please watch Glenn Greenwald explain how ISRAEL IS KNOWINGLY KILLING FOREIGN AID WORKERS, INCLUDING AMERICANS, in addition to Palestinian women & children: lnkd.in/g4mKYBEC
Israel has also orphaned over 30K kids, has destroyed the homes of nearly 1M & is still blocking aid to them, killing them WITH STARVATION, DEHYDRATION, & DISEASE, in addition to U.S. supplied bombs.
Listen to world renowned professor & public policy expert Jeffrey Sachs explain how ISRAEL IS INTENTIONALLY STARVING OVER 1M CHILDREN. He says “the ICJ will find these acts to be genocidal” & “ the U.S. should immediately stop all munitions for this murderous rampage”: lnkd.in/gy-q3rpR
And here is renowned University of Chicago Prof. John Mearsheimer explaining that ISRAEL’S ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE BOTH GAZA & THE WEST BANK & get us into a war with Iran, which he says are definitely NOT in our national interest: lnkd.in/g-WcuhSv
In this article, I explain how Israel has always been able to beat Hamas & ensure its security WITHOUT KILLING CHILDREN. Sadly, Israel keeps ignoring this option because its goal is not to beat Hamas, but rather to continue using them & similar groups as a pretext to continue ethnically cleansing more of historic Palestine (that's why Israel helped strengthen Hamas for years). In fact, Israel knows that its indiscriminate brutality will only help Hamas & similar groups recruit: lnkd.in/gY98T9mc
I also cry for the 38 Israeli children & others killed on Oct 7th, but this horrible conflict did NOT start on that day. The proof is the nearly 2300 Palestinian children killed by Israeli soldiers & settlers between 2000 & Oct 2023, including 43 during the 9 months just before 10/7 (names & details on BTselem.org).
Israel has also continued stealing more Palestinian homes & farms in the West Bank EVERY YEAR as part of its 57 year apartheid, & has imposed a brutal blockade of Gaza since 2005. ALL illegal, immoral, & ongoing acts of war.
That's why EVEN the ex-head of Israel’s Shin Bet (their FBI), Ami Ayalon, & ex-Israeli PM & General, Ehud Barak, BOTH saying IF THEY WERE PALESTINIAN THEY WOULD FIGHT ISRAEL BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THEIR LIBERTY: lnkd.in/guNE7vay
I will keep advocating for nonviolent resistance, but when Palestinians try, IDF soldiers shoot them in the knees, kill them, or at least imprison & beat them. Please read this 2020 Haaretz article titled: '42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters: lnkd.in/g4VqQRzs
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES to demand they stop helping Israel kill children, ethnically cleans families, & maintain its brutal apartheid WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS.
Funding a genocide by sending weapons to Israel is ecocide.
These weapons damage the earth & sever the important tie between indigenous people and the environment, killing both.
This Earth Day, we reject superficiality and demand accountability. Sign the petition below to tell Congress: War is not green! Genocide=Ecocide!
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Our report finds warring parties increasingly using starvation as a weapon of war by attacking food aid and water infrastructure. On World Food Day, we need to urge leaders to hold those committing war crimes to account, and to address the injustices and inequalities that fuel conflict.
Read more: https://oxf.am/3Ni865h#WorldFoodDay2024
Wars are tearing our world apart w/ unimaginable cruelty & destruction. Far too many civilians are paying the ultimate price.
We must end this escalation of conflict & its unconscionable human toll.
Governments must stop short-term thinking, denial, confrontation & escalation- and instead choose to protect & advance human rights. It's the way to prevent & end wars, bringing us out of this nightmare.
https://lnkd.in/d7VAEC3F
https://lnkd.in/eBVKb6Es
Jewish Voice For Peace
President Biden, call a ceasefire now.
We, the undersigned, call on President Biden to demand and facilitate an immediate ceasefire. The Biden administration must also refrain from sending any more weapons to the Israeli government.
The Israeli government is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. They've killed tens of thousands of people in a matter of months, reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble, carried out hundreds of attacks on hospitals and essential medical infrastructure, and destroyed heritage sites, schools, and places of worship. Eighty-five percent of Gaza's population — 1.9 million people — have been forced to flee their homes.
There is no justification in international law for the targeting of civilians or the holding of civilian hostages. That was true when Hamas attacked Israeli civilians. We must apply that same standard to the Israeli military as it inflicts incomprehensible suffering on a captive population in Gaza.
The unthinkable becomes acceptable when we deny people their humanity.
We mourn for the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost, and we continue to fight with everything we have to bring this devastating violence to an immediate end.
President Biden: Stop sending the Israeli military more weapons. Facilitate an immediate ceasefire. Millions of lives depend on it.
Use the link below.
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2wThese men and women deserve the up most respect, dignity, honour and never to forget them today, tomorrow or even the future. They fought for our country to have freedom today as we know. The sacrifice they went through was astonishing, awful and so painful. Leaving a comrade behind is heart breaking to any serviceman or woman. They are alone but not in spirit.