While rebel forces fight Qadhafi militiamen in Libya, protesters burn government buildings in Syria, Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas at protesters in Manama, and a bombing at a bus stop in Jerusalem killed one woman and injured 20 other people.
The Western world looks on as citizens of countries ruled by dictatorial regimes protest and demand the removal of their leaders.
Some look at the exit of Mubarak from Egypt as a victory for democracy, but those that are in the know about foreign matters are concerned about what kind of government will replace him, viewing the replacement as worse than the first.
The fear is that the exit of a dictator leaves a vacuum that could be filled with the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist group that seeks to instill the Quran and Sunnah as the primary guide for the life of all Muslims.
The Brotherhood officially condemns violence, but over the years the group has been known to support violence and has been repeatedly banned from Egypt.
Meanwhile in Libya there is some hope for the rebels as Qadhafi forces withdrew from a key city in the Eastern part of the country, mostly because of the bombing the Libyan forces received from international fighter jets of the coalition.
Violence against the citizens by Qadhafi's forces gained international attention when a Libyan woman was detained by soldiers for two days, brutally raping her, and was dragged away to an unknown location by government officials as she tried to tell her story to foreign journalists in a Tripoli hotel.
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