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"Their fate is not in my hands now," said Yasmine, 20, a college student. "The army and the police think the people trapped inside are terrorists. But they are not. What we have now is chaos. There is chaos between all the Egyptian people."

One would expect allegedly "outspoken" critics of the US and Israel to represent the antithesis of any joint US-Israeli foreign policy, especially when it involves mass-murdering large numbers of fellow Arabs to expand Western hegemony across the Middle East. Yet the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has done the exact opposite, after a long campaign of feigned anti-American, anti-Israel propaganda during the Egyptian presidential run-up, the Muslim Brotherhood has joined US, European, and Israeli calls for an "international" intervention in Syria.

Braving sub freezing temperatures, Egyptians and their supporters demonstrated yesterday at the Egyptian Consulate in New York. The messages on the signs speak loud and clear …. no commentary is necessary.

The next speaker was the man who appeared in the widely-circulated video in which he is shown being beaten next to a female activist who is stripped of her clothes, beaten and dragged into the street by soldiers. "I screamed at the soldiers that I'm a journalist and asked them to let me take the girl, who had fallen, to a safe place outside. But they separated us and began beating us both,” said Hassan, a journalist for independent daily El-Badil.

On the day when Egypt%u2019s revolution began, when huge crowds came out to protest former president Hosni Mubarak%u2019s government, women came. When protests turned into battles with police, women faced the tear gas with the men. And when protesters settled in for the long haul and occupied Tahrir Square, women were among those who pitched their tents and slept in the cold.