The Gaza flotilla members as they’re:
🔴 Released from Israel and about to board the plane
🔴 Arriving in Istanbul
🔴 And what followed seemingly moments later...
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In September 1943, Italy fell under German occupation. The SS hunted Jews for deportation to Auschwitz.
In Assisi, a 32-year-old Franciscan friar named Rufino Niccacci—peasant-born, Guardian of San Damiano Monastery, and someone who had never met a Jew—received an order from Bishop Giuseppe Nicolini.
“We are hiding Jews in every monastery and convent in Assisi.”
“If we’re caught, we’ll be shot,” Rufino replied.
“Yes,” the bishop said. “As many as can come.”
Rufino accepted.
What followed was one of the war’s most daring rescues. Jews fleeing from Rome, Florence, and the north poured into Assisi.
Rufino hid them across 26 monasteries and convents—including the Basilica of Saint Francis and ancient cloistered houses that had never admitted outsiders.
They disguised Jews as monks and nuns. Rufino taught them Latin prayers, how to walk, pray, and sit in chapel. Children memorized Catholic rites they didn’t understand.
A local souvenir shop owner, Luigi Brizi, and his son printed hundreds of flawless fake identity cards, claiming the bearers were from already-liberated southern Italy.
The SS raided repeatedly. They searched monasteries, convents, and homes. They found nothing.
For eight months, an entire town kept the secret. Not a single betrayal. A German colonel, devout Catholic Valentin Müller, was stationed there. He loved Assisi’s churches, attended Mass, and even toured holy sites with Rufino—never knowing (or never acknowledging) the hundreds of hidden Jews around him. He successfully petitioned to make Assisi a protected hospital town, removing combat troops.
Inside the convents, quiet miracles occurred. Jews observed Yom Kippur with the nuns’ blessing; the nuns prepared the breaking-fast meal. Rufino arranged Hebrew lessons for the children, ensuring they could still practice their faith while pretending to be Catholic.
“They were children of God,” he later said. “What else were we supposed to do?”
The network nearly broke in May 1944 when the Bishop’s secretary, Father Aldo Brunacci, was arrested and interrogated. He revealed nothing. Vatican pressure secured his release.
One month later, on June 16, 1944, the Allies liberated Assisi. All 300 hidden Jews walked out alive. Not one had been caught or deported.
They had been sheltered by hundreds of nuns, priests, and townspeople who knew the penalty: priests across Europe were being executed for less.
One informant could have doomed them all. It never happened.
After the war, Rufino returned to quiet Franciscan life. He founded a settlement for poor Christian and Jewish families, served as a parish priest, and avoided fame.
In 1974, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He planted a tree in Israel and quietly reunited with one of the women he had saved.
He died in 1976 at 65, asking to be cremated in solidarity with Holocaust victims. The Church buried him traditionally. Today, few outside Assisi know his name.
Yet his legacy endures in the thousands of descendants of those 300 saved souls.
An entire town proved it was possible to choose humanity over fear.
No collaborators. No betrayals. No exceptions.
They did not yield.
May all of their memories be a blessing, especially Friar Rufino Nicacci.
@terzaketv Volgens @terzaketv "Martelpraktijken en seksueel geweld". Van horen zeggen. Geen factcheck, geen onafhankelijke bevestiging, geen wederwoord. De journalistiek is morsdood.
@terzaketv@svhoorn@YfReykers@anneliesbeck Hebben we de @terzaketv gemist over het barbaarse seksuele geweld van Gazanen op Joodse vrouwen, kinderen en mannen op 7/10/23? Rapport met 100-den getuigenissen, 1000-den (zelfgemaakte) beelden en 10000-den foto's: https://t.co/1iuALlIBmd
A superloser is a leader of a great power, or (onetime) superpower, whose disastrous choices lead to a crash. He possesses a combination of skills that allow for a rise to personal power and the collapse of state power.
I spell out the phenomenon in this video:
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Uit een slecht afgenomen steekproef kan je geen enkele juiste conclusie trekken.
Geen enkele.
Dus: wegwerpen en opnieuw beginnen, in plaats van te blijven proberen het te vergoelijken.
Dit is geen ‘Foto van Vlaanderen’, maar een karikatuur van Vlaanderen.
@IvanVandeCloot@JanWostyn Probleem is dat deze vrij grote categorie een onzorgvuldig samengesteld amalgaam is, dat geen enkele geloofwaardige conclusies toelaat.
@villapolitica@mboudry@RuttenGwendolyn@anders_partij@vrtnws Schols had ook een clip uit de oude doos opgevist om de olifant in de kamer niet te benoemen en met een eigen steekproef van 1 een statistisch onbeduidende minderheid weeral met de vinger te wijzen.
@PLoobuyck Schols had ook een clip uit de oude doos opgevist om de olifant in de kamer niet te benoemen en met een eigen steekproef van 1 een statistisch onbeduidende minderheid weeral met de vinger te wijzen.
@jdceulaer Schols had in de uitzending ook een clip uit de oude doos opgevist om de olifant in de kamer niet te benoemen en met een eigen steekproef van 1 het debat een andere richting uit te sturen en een kleine minderheid weeral met de vinger te wijzen.
Het afkomst- en moslim-aspect werd netjes weggelaten, maar @bartschols wilde duidelijk wél het (marginaal aanwezige) Joodse aandeel eventjes in de verf zetten.
Wat een aflevering van @deafspraaktv was dit toch alweer geweest zonder @mboudry als tafelgast!?
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Onvoldoende bewijs voor genocide in Gaza.
De term "genocide" wordt gebruikt voor Gaza met de kwade bedoeling om de Joden treffen waar het hen pijn kan doen. Omdat ze zelf het slachtoffer waren van een genocide komt zo'n beschuldiging dubbel hard aan.
Zeer unfair is dat.
De aanklager bij het Internationaal Strafhof is duidelijk. Hij zal geen procedure starten voor dat hof op grond van "genocide" in Gaza tegen Israël. Nog belangrijker is dat hij stelt niet over voldoende bewijzen te beschikken daarvoor en niet te willen voortgaan op "kabaal".
Ik ben het daarmee eens. Als men de rapporten leest van onder andere Mevr. Francesca Albanese, en nagaat wat haar oorspronkelijke bronnen zijn, dan is "kabaal" het juiste woord. Hetzelfde geldt voor de argumenten die bepaalde politici inroepen om van een genocide te gewagen en het evidente kabaal van de activisten.
The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.
Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.
But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.
The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
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I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
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Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.