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MISSING FAMILIES FORUM ISRAELI FAMLIES HOSTAGES IN GAZA PLEA FOR FREEDOM - We speak to Shane Granot, a very smart and kind woman · Go News To Go: More Good News

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  Okay, Hi Poslactis. We're actually here in front of the Secretary General's home
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  of the United Nations. The United Nations with one hundred and ninety three countries.
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  Many of those countries are in the Middle East. As you all know,
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  we've been involved with the peace movement my entire life. But in addition
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  we have for twenty two years we've been doing peace conserence in Central Park here
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  in Times Square. So this organization with Shawnee Okay, Hostages Families Forum and
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  there's their pr code. So tell us a little bit about the organization and
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  why you're here. An organization is the headquarters of the Family's way too many
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  families that they're eleven one fourth in Costa on over seven and the massacre that's
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  so musted in it, and there are families from different nationalities, from five
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  different religions. It's not only an Israeli or a Jewish inner thing, but
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  the headquarters sits in Israel and we are their branch here any more. Ah
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  okay, And this started after October seventh, this group, and we're fighting
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  for the release of our luck ones and we're supporting the families that are in
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  pure agony. Waiting for their loved ones to return to them. This is
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  by far a terrible, terrible scenario. Unfortunately, the Jewish community for three
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  thousand years has always had some stress and strain from others, even though we're
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  all Homo sapien brothers and sisters. Seems not to make sense, you know,
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  Shahnny just gave me actually a pin here, a yellow yellow ribbon.
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  It's the sign for the It's a global sign, an international sign for the
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  release of hostages, and it's our sign. And go with yellow ribbons wherever
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  we go. I think you can see. Also in front of the Secretary
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  there's house, there's always a yellow ribbon. It's raining now, so it's
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  oh really okay. Well, I ironically, way back when Vietnam I also
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  did the Woodstock and that was a concerning time for America to be involved with
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  a war scenario, and we had something called the POW's Prisoners of War,
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  which is similar in certain respects, however not as drastic and in other respects
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  as what has occurred here and the yellow ribbon. I so havepen worked with
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  Tony Orlando. He wrote a song ti Yellow Ribbon around the old oak Tree.
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  An oak tree is stability. We need stability on Mother Earth. What
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  do you think here, Shohnny, to make our lovely planet. I'm gonna
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  go here too. This is Mother Earth. There's actually literally no borders and
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  boundaries. What do you think we could all do to have more peace?
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  Let's say peace right there in that area of concern. As a piece fighter
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  that has always been one that also lost. I also lost my own grandmother
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  to terror, which only made my family more kind of peace spiders to me.
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  The word piece now within the region between these road and Gaza is nothing
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  we can talk about for this in this in the in the short term.
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  There's no faith now in both sides. The destruction and the pain is so
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  big, so deep. Peace is something to hope for and to fight for,
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  and it has to be the mission, it has to be the cause.
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  But it's nothing we can see in short term. Unfortunately, it's it's
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  just not going to happen anytime soon. I'm saying it with a very heavy
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  heart. That's the truth. For now. I hope that people in Gaza
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  will stand against come us. I hope that people in Israel now that you
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  can in any way compare right, But I hope we in Israel will have
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  a better leadership, and I hope both people will be able to fight together
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  for peace. It's nothing that we're gonna see and it's okay. So I
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  thank you for sharing that, and I am praying as a as a fellow
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  brother and sister and everybody else all in this together that it it does come
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  soon. But that I also say, how women, and I hope that
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  the hostages will be released. I think if they won't be released very soon,
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  the chances for a peace or getting foreign well, we're hearing things,
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  you know in the news about that. I received something this morning from the
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  Pope who can also be helpful here in that area, and condemning the terrorist
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  attacks and desiring peace and the release of the hostages. And so with the
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  spirit of this whole group that was here, I'm a little late getting cross
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  town and continued work to keep a peaceful Israel and uh and and a peaceful
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  Palestine. And are however these areas so become I'm not I'm a John Lennonist,
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  and so I don't actually believe in countries. I think countries mess us
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  up there make believe anyway, to begin with, what do you think about
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  that idea. It's so far fast, it's I mean, right now,
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  there are families in my countine that are waiting in agony, that are suffering
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  because their loved ones are not eating and are not drinking, under the tunnels
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  of from us being tortured. So I can't even think about things like borders
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  in countries now, I just want them home. And that's this is everything
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  you see now. You're smart. You're a smart woman, You're a smart
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  person. You're a smart sister, and I thank you for taking time.
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  Is do you all have a website that people can go to? Alrighty and
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  what is their name to it besides that New York dot com or something?
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  Okay, Okay, Now Sunday, I know there's an event ninetieth Street and
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  Central Park West. We're setting there for the hospitals. We're running for the
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  US, right, they have a run? Okay, thank you so much. The Bott