Do not believe all the youtube captions

Warning the video is graphic: I found this video in my news feed with the following caption.

A suicide Bomber was shot dead by Israeli forces, Muslims took up his body and started protesting and these Dumbos did not know that that suicide belt was still tied to the bomber body they were carrying.. what happened next .is in the video.

This video was originally released June 30, 2012.  The funeral is for Syrian opposition leader, Abdul Hadi al-Halabi.  The location of the funeral is a suburb of Damascus,  Zamalka.  According to anti-Assad activists al-Halabi had been killed by a government sniper.  During his funeral, according to these activists, a car bomb went off killing 20-50 people.  Those flags are the "Independence Flag", the flag of the some of the Syrian opposition forces.

Feel free to learn more from my sources.

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She was locked in a bathroom for the past decade by her father

RAMALLAH, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the past decade by her father, who let her out only in the dead of night so she could clean their house.

"People are monsters," Baraa Melhem said her father would tell her, according to a social worker dealing with the case.

Palestinian police said on Monday they freed Melhem from the small bathroom of a home in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on Saturday after an anonymous tip.

Her father, who holds Israeli citizenship, was arrested and handed over to Israeli authorities. He is due to appear in an Israeli court on Wednesday, an Israeli police spokesman said.

Melhem told Voice of Palestine radio that when she was 11, her father confined her to the toilet and did not allow her to go to school or see her mother, whom he had divorced.

She was beaten with a baton and metal wires and given only one blanket to keep her warm, said the social worker, Hala Shreim.

"The bathroom was only 1-1/2 meters big, it was like a cell," Shreim said.

According to a statement issued by Palestinian police, the father, citing a "family dispute", admitted to locking up his daughter and feeding her mainly bread.

Melhem told Voice of Palestine that her father used to shave her hair and her eyebrows, and allowed her to shower only once a month. He would let her out of the bathroom every night at 1 a.m. to clean the house until 4 a.m., she added.

Melhem's father, the social worker said, often encouraged his daughter to commit suicide.

"Her only consolation was a radio which kept her connected to the world," Shreim said.

The young woman has now been reunited with her mother.

"She told me that she loves life and has to live," Shreim quoted Melhem as saying. [1]

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Even Carmen Sandiego did not try to steal Jesus' tomb

These guys are totally awesome in a Carmen Sandiego type way.  They tried to steal Jesus's tomb.

The Medicean Chapel at the back of the choir was intended by its founder, Ferdinand I., for the reception of the Holy Sepulchre, the intention being to steal the latter from Jerusalem. In 1603 there arrived at Florence a mysterious personage from the East, styling himself Emir of the Druses. This emir revealed the fact that he was a descendant of the pious " Goffredo," and as such entertained an hereditary hatred against the Turks, and offered his aid to the Grand-Duke [Cosmino II] to enable him to acquire or to steal the most revered relic of Christendom. When, in 1604, the emir returned to Jerusalem, a small fleet of galleys was dispatched to (he coast of Syria, and the emir and his confederates actually found means to enter the church, and begin their operations for detaching the sepulchre. They were, however, surprised by the malice of the Greeks and compelled to take flight, leaving their saws, and the marks already made, behind them.

Cosmino II converted the building [Medicean Chapel] into the cemetery of the grand ducal family. The walls are entirely covered with the richest marbles and pietre dure, jasper, chalcedony, agate, lapis lazuli, and still more precious stones. The armorial bearings of the principal cities of Tuscany, incorporated in the dominions of the Medici, ranging round the chapel are examples of the richness of Florentine mosaic I was much struck by red Giglio on shield of Florence. The Medicean cenotaphs are, in splendor of material, in accordance with the mausoleum which incloses them.[1]

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Radical Jewish Settlers vandalize Arab Christian and Muslim cemeteries

Two Arab cemeteries were vandalized, one Arab Christian and the one Arab Muslim.  These radical Jews obviously make little distinction between religions and will persecute Arabs regardless of faith.  

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Less than a week after the arson of a mosque in northern Israel, dozens of Christian and Muslim graves were vandalized in an Arab section of the Israeli city of Jaffa.

More than 100 graves were vandalized in the Muslim cemetery of al-Kazakhana and at a nearby Christian cemetery in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, according to residents and a CNN producer who visited the locations.

Some of the graves were spray painted with graffiti while others were smashed.

Residents say the vandalism took place Friday evening as the Yom Kippur holiday was beginning in Israel, but police suggested it might have taken place a day or two prior.

Among the words spray-painted in Hebrew on the gravestones were "price tag" and "death to all Arabs."

"Price tag" is a term frequently used by radical Israeli settlers to denote reprisal attacks against Palestinians in response to moves by the Israeli government to evacuate illegal West Bank outposts, or as retribution for attacks by Palestinians.

Local residents told CNN that police who arrived at the scene on Saturday morning tried to cover up the graffiti using white paint. The police also asked locals to clean up the graffiti.

"This is bad, this very, very bad. This is all because of the settlers that moved into the neighborhood. When they did this, the writing was on the wall," Jaffa resident Kamel Satal told CNN.

He was referring to the opening in 2009, just blocks away in the predominantly Arab neighborhood, of a Hesder Yeshiva, a religious school for young men which traditionally combines Torah studies with military service.

"If they did what they did in Zangaria in Jaffa, there would be big, big problems," he added, referring to the mosque that was severely damaged in an suspected arson attack in the Israeli Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in northern Israel on Monday. An 18-year-old Jewish Israeli was arrested in connection with the arson.

Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said police were investigating the vandalism at the cemeteries.

Speaking to the Palestinian Authority run WAFA news agency, Ibrahim Sarsour, an Arab Israeli lawmaker, condemned the vandalism.

"The Israeli government was not making any effort to stop these racist attacks against Palestinians," Sarsour said. "Rather, it provides extremists protection."

According to Israeli police, reprisals have increased in the past year, prompting them to create a special investigative unit.

In the past year, four West Bank mosques have been set ablaze. The United Nations has reported a measurable spike in violence against Palestinian property in 2011.

On Wednesday, a shrine holy to Jews was desecrated in the West Bank.

Jewish worshippers arrived at Joseph's Tomb in the city of Nablus to find swastikas and graffiti sprayed on the walls. It is unclear when the graffiti was left there. The site is under Palestinian Authority rule, and Jews visit every couple of months to pray.[CNN]

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OK, Jaffa is not in the West Bank, but the term "price tag" is a term used by radical Israeli settlers.  Also the story itself made the connection to four arson attacks on mosques in the West Bank.  So I am going to connect this story to a story that occurred two years ago over 40 miles away in the town of Yitzhar in the West Bank.  Still, I am only beginning to understand different non-Israeli Palestinian groups, so I have no idea of divisions among radical Israeli settlers.  Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro may preach against arson and destroying cemeteries.   I do not know.

Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel.

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book "The King's Torah" that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.

Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to which he adds his opinions and beliefs.

"It is permissable to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation," he wrote, adding: "If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments - because we care about the commandments - there is nothing wrong with the murder."

Several prominent rabbis, including Rabbi Yithak Ginzburg and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, have recommended the book to their students and followers.[haaeretz]

Israeli Scientist wins Nobel for discovering quasicrystals

A scientist whose work was so controversial he was ridiculed and asked to leave his research group has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


Daniel Shechtman, 70, a researcher at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, received the award for discovering seemingly impossible crystal structures in frozen gobbets of metal that resembled the beautiful patterns seen in Islamic mosaics.


Images of the metals showed their atoms were arranged in a way that broke well-establised rules of how crystals formed, a finding that fundamentally altered how chemists view solid matter.


In addition to the kudos of the award, Shechtman receives 10 million Swedish kronor (£934,000).


Crystallised materials are normally made up of "unit cells" of atoms that repeat over and over to make a single, uniform structure. This kind of crystal structure makes graphite a good lubricant, for example, because it can cleave easily across certain planes of weakness.


On the morning of 8 April 1982, Shechtman saw something quite different while gazing at electron microscope images of a rapidly cooled metal alloy. The atoms were packed in a pattern that could not be repeated. Shechtman said to himself in Hebrew, "Eyn chaya kazo," which means "There can be no such creature."


The bizarre structures are now known as "quasicrystals" and have been seen in a wide variety of materials. Their uneven structure means they do not have obvious cleavage planes, making them particularly hard.


"His discovery was extremely controversial. In the course of defending his findings, he was asked to leave his research group," the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. "However, his battle eventually forced scientists to reconsider their conception of the very nature of matter … Scientists are currently experimenting with using quasicrystals in different products such as frying pans and diesel engines."


In an interview this year with the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, Shechtman said: "People just laughed at me." He recalled how Linus Pauling, a colossus of science and a double Nobel laureate, mounted a frightening "crusade" against him. After telling Shechtman to go back and read a crystallography textbook, the head of his research group asked him to leave for "bringing disgrace" on the team. "I felt rejected," Shachtman said.


The existence of quasicrystals, though controversial, was anticipated much earlier, but Shechtman was the first to see them in nature. The 16th century astronomer Johannes Kepler drew quasicrystal-like patterns in his book Mysterium Cosmographicum.


In the 1970s, Sir Roger Penrose, the Oxford University mathematical physicist, created "aperiodic" tiling patterns that never repeated themselves, work that he suspects was inspired by Kepler's drawings.


"I once asked Shechtman if he knew about my tilings when he saw the things he saw. He said he did, but that he didn't have them in mind when he was looking at them," Penrose told the Guardian. "I think it was rather similar to my experience with Kepler's patterns. Probably he was influenced unconsciously."


Penrose's own contribution to the field led some scientists to suggest he might himself be a contender for the Nobel prize. "Some people have said that, but I was a bit doubtful that would happen. Shechtman was the first person to see these things and it took a while to come around to the view that the things that were seen were the same kind of patterns I'd produced about 10 years earlier," he said.


While the patterns were beautiful and fundamentally interesting, Penrose said he was not aware of any very successful commercial applications. Though quasicrystal frying pan coatings exist, he said: "I am not sure they are terribly effective. I believe they interact with egg."


Astrid Graslund, professor of biophysics at Stockholm University and secretary for the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, conceded: "The practical applications are, as of now, not so many. But the material has unexpected properties. It is very strong, it has hardly any friction on the surface, it doesn't want to react with anything, [it] cannot oxidize and become rusty."


David Phillips, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: "Quasicrystals are a fascinating aspect of chemical and material science – crystals that break all the rules of being a crystal at all. You can normally explain in simple terms where in a crystal each atom sits – they are very symmetrical. With quasicrystals, that symmetry is broken: there are regular patterns in the structure, but never repeating."


He added: "They're quite beautiful, and have potential applications in protective alloys and coatings. The award of the Nobel Prize to Danny Shechtman is a celebration of fundamental research."[Guardian]