Maurits Jan Vink

“Een beetje boosaardigheid en mensen zijn hel voor elkaar-Amos Oz" | mediator | redacteur Tijdschrift Conflicthantering | organisatie-adviseur | vader

[Maurits Jan Vink @MauritsJanVink]

Wandelend bij het Museumplein viel mijn oog op dit gedicht van Remco Campert. Blijft prachtig:

“... jezelf een vraag stellen
daarmee begint verzet

en dan die vraag aan een ander stellen”

#blijfvragenstellen

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

A touch of class from Morocco after the final whistle. 🇲🇦👏

Despite celebrating their own historic victory, their players made sure to comfort Cody Gakpo following the Netherlands' World Cup elimination.

Gakpo and his partner, Noa van der Bij, announced earlier this week that they lost their baby boy during pregnancy.

An incredible moment of sportsmanship.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

After losing World War II, Germany lost 25% of all its territory and 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe.

And yet, there hasn’t been a single case of Germans hijacking planes, blowing themselves up, or committing terrorist attacks like Palestinians.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.

The visuals from Switzerland:

• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.

• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.

• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Oh boy, things are escalating quickly.

Vance: “My message to people in Bibi's government who are attacking Trump: Do not attack the only leader in the world who supports you. Your country was built with our money.”

No, Mr. Vice President, our country wasn’t built with your money and as a Christian, you should know exactly who gave us this country.

We appreciate your friendship and support but we will not take orders from you or anyone else about how we defend ourselves from the enemies you are now funding with hundreds of billions that’ll go straight to weapons directed at Israel.

Let’s not be confused, Mr. Vance.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Greetings, President Trump,
You may have secured a temporary deal, but you've shaken the trust of almost everyone around you except perhaps JD Vance and Iran's Supreme Leader. Attacking friends who stood with you in wartime while defending an enemy that attacked both of you is how nations stop trusting you, even if they keep smiling for the cameras. The way many of us, including me, see it, Israel is America's biggest ally in the Middle East. Telling Israel not to hit Hezbollah for the sake of a deal with Iran is like telling America not to hit al-Qaeda because you're negotiating with Hamas.

And a deal that lasts only 60 days? That's not diplomacy, that's a ceasefire with an expiry date shorter than a carton of milk.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

According to the 14-point draft agreement, the US is immediately lifting oil sanctions so Iran can resume selling oil, and giving Iran access to its frozen assets (estimated at around $300 billion globally).

In return, Iran simply promises not to build nuclear weapons, while being allowed to keep its entire stockpile of enriched uranium.

This isn’t a deal. This is surrender dressed up as diplomacy.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Excellent from @LordIanAustin on yet ANOTHER debate on the evils of Israel:

As he says: ‘Over the last few years, Parliament has discussed Israel more than any other issue, not just any international issue, more than any domestic issue: more than the economy, unemployment, crime, the NHS.
‘The public out there look at Parliament and think this is utterly mad, utterly, utterly mad.’

Lord Ian blames Parliament for helping fuel antisemitism adding:

‘Does Parliament not understand that singling out the world's only Jewish state, holding its standards not applied to anywhere else, falsely accusing Israel of committing these terrible crimes? ‘This is bound to drive hostility towards people who are identified with Israel, which is the vast majority of the Jewish community, and I have to say this is why I believe Parliament is playing a large role in driving the explosion of anti-Semitism that we've seen on the streets of Britain.’

[Ronny Naftaniel @RonnyNaftaniel]

#Halsema vindt het Centraal Joods overleg niet representatief: “een kleine groep heren die zich elke keer publiekelijk uit”.
Dit is voor een niet-gekozen burgemeester wel een heel goedkope manier van reageren op de terechte kritiek op haar Nakba verklaring https://t.co/4uBoXgLU5m

[Leon van Noort 🇳🇱 @LeonvanNoort]

Hoe onze vrijheid geleidelijk sterft waar de islam verschijnt en de politiek wegkijkt. #Jetten #antisemitisme #wievoortirannenzwicht

[Diederik van Dijk @djhvandijk]

Het recht van Kanye West om visumvrij te reizen, weegt zwaarder dan het belang van onze murw geslagen Joodse landgenoten. Het recht beschermt de dader in plaats van de slachtoffers. Als medewetgever schaam ik mij voor deze uitkomst van onze rechtsstaat. https://t.co/Nq943F6Zk2

[Bart Schut @bpschut]

Er komt maar geen einde aan de anti-Israëlische terreur in ons land.
Kunnen we nu eindelijk constateren dat #palestinisme de nieuwste, meest racistische en gewelddadige vorm van fascisme is?
En waarom weigeren regering, OM en politie er tegen op te treden?
https://t.co/bWIRg0oaA8

[Simon Van Gogh @SimonVanGogh]

@wierdduk @mcbenaim Coen Verbraak in gesprek met Jolande Withuis over Woke 👇

[Mirjam Bikker @mirjambikker]

Engeland, Polen, Frankrijk en Zwitserland, allemaal zijn ze duidelijk: geen podium voor antisemitisme en rechts-extremisme. Maar ons land loopt weer achter de feiten aan. Hoop dat de minister pijlsnel voorstellen doet om dit verder te voorkomen. https://t.co/dN0CbYW1GA

[Adri Vermaat @rechtsbuiten]

#Jodenhaat Het is voor bestuurders in Nederland makkelijker om ##Joden en #Israëli uit concertzalen, universiteiten etc.te weren dan #Jodenhaters en #antisemieten. #Politiek #Arnhem #Ye

https://t.co/7hiBc3quTU

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 UK JEWISH LEADER SAYS HE IS LEAVING BRITAIN FOR ISRAEL

Jeremy Jacobs, a former head of the UK’s United Synagogue, says he is moving to Israel after losing faith in British society amid rising antisemitism.

His family has lived in Britain since the 1850s.

Now he says walking around London with a kippah makes him fearful, and he no longer believes most people would defend Jews facing harassment.

His words say everything:
“When I walk in Israel, even in a war zone, I feel at home.”

“In London, where we live, that feeling has gone.”

This is what happens when a country allows antisemitism to become normal in its streets, universities, and public spaces.

Jews are not imagining it.
They are leaving.
(TOI)

[Maurits Jan Vink @MauritsJanVink]

“Wanneer verslaggeving ideologisch wordt of obsessionele vormen aanneemt, mijn woorden, is dit een probleem.”
Wat een gemis dat #Ephimenco vertrekt bij @trouw

[Adri Vermaat @rechtsbuiten]

#Ephimenco #Trouw Laatste column van Ephimenco in Trouw. Er is vast een handvol lezers blij met de meervoudige karaktermoord die hem tot zijn opstapten noopten. In werkelijkheid dreef hoofdred. Trouw zijn beste columnist naar de uitgang. Onvergeeflijk.

https://t.co/Pi1Z93yELf

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

Don’t look away. @camillalong is right.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Pretty sick of the countries that are boycotting Eurovision because the Jews are competing. Before you say “don’t conflate!”, these are countries that expelled their Jews (Spain), or refused to welcome Holocaust refugees (Ireland), or where most Jews were genocided (Netherlands). Europe liquidated its Jewish population in living memory and the survivors built new lives in Israel. Now these entitled, hateful broadcasters are boycotting the show in solidarity with the territorist armies that tried to kill those survivors. It’s so fucked up.

[Maurits Jan Vink @MauritsJanVink]

Twee minuten naar @billmaher luisteren en het wordt tijd je verhaal (eindelijk) aan te passen @jesseklaver en @robjetten