“It’s Time to Abolish Nakba Day” - Bassem Eid
Voor de Nakba-buigburgemeesters Halsema, Dijksma en Marcouch, die hun dawa-cliëntelisme laten prevaleren boven historische feiten: lees onderstaande blog van Bassem Eid (1958), een Palestijn die in Israël woont en een lange staat van dienst heeft als mensenrechtenactivist.
Zijn oorspronkelijke focus lag op vermeende mensenrechtenschendingen door Israël, maar later richtte hij zich ook op schendingen door de Palestijnse Autoriteit (PA) en Palestijnse gewapende groeperingen tegen hun eigen bevolking.
“Op 29 november 1947 nam de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties Resolutie 181 aan, waarin werd aanbevolen het Britse mandaatgebied Palestina op te delen in twee staten: één Joodse en één Arabische. De Joodse leiders accepteerden dit. Het Arabisch Hoger Comité wees het af. Er kwam geen tegenvoorstel, geen onderhandeling en geen poging om de best mogelijke uitkomst voor de Arabische bevolking veilig te stellen. Er was alleen afwijzing, gevolgd door geweld.”
“Op 15 mei 1948, de dag nadat Israël zijn onafhankelijkheid uitriep, vielen de legers van Egypte, Libanon, Transjordanië, Syrië en Irak de pas gestichte staat binnen. […] Dit was geen oorlog voor nationale bevrijding. Het was een vernietigingsoorlog tegen een nieuw opgerichte staat en de Joodse bevolking. De Arabische legers verloren. Dát is de Nakba.”
“Het Nakba-narratief presenteert 1948 alsof het uitsluitend de Palestijnen is overkomen. Het wist het feit uit dat het Jordaanse Arabische Legioen in diezelfde oorlog iedere Jood uit de Oude Stad van Jeruzalem en de Westelijke Jordaanoever verdreef, 58 synagogen verwoestte […] Ook wordt verzwegen dat meer dan 850.000 Joden later uit hun huizen in de Arabische wereld werden verdreven.”
“Israël heeft mij geen vluchteling gemaakt. Jordanië deed dat. De omstandigheden waarin ik opgroeide […] werden gecreëerd door Arabische leiders die Palestijns leed als wapen gebruikten, terwijl zij niets deden om dat leed te verlichten.”
“Als Palestijnen werkelijk vrede willen […] moeten we beginnen met onszelf de waarheid te vertellen. De oorlog van 1948 was geen natuurramp. Het was een keuze van Arabische leiders die vernietiging verkozen boven compromis.”
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Denmark just released official crime statistics broken down by origin.
The groups with the highest crime rates are from Somalia, Palestine, and Morocco.
For years, European leaders denied any connection between mass immigration from certain countries and rising crime. Now the data is becoming impossible to ignore.
How much longer will they keep pretending this isn’t happening?
Many of the onshore wind farms along the coasts of the UK and Denmark are falling apart after only 10 years.
A study reveals that energy contributions from wind farms begin to fall sharply after only 10 to 15 years, leaving the skeletons of steel and plastic blowing in the wind.
The economic analysis reveals the lifespan of an onshore turbine is not 20 to 25 years, as stated by the wind industry itself, supported by the UK Government.
This peer reviewed British study reveals that the energy production of onshore wind farms falls substantially as they get older, due to wear and tear. Energy and environmental economist, Professor Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh), carried out the statistical analysis of wind farm performance data in the UK and Denmark.
He concluded that load factors, like electricity generated as a percentage of capacity, declined a lot faster than expected, suggesting a baseline 10 to 15 year lifespan. This is when the technical life of most turbines crunch to halt, and become unprofitable to continue. Rising maintenance costs makes them uneconomical.
The study found the average UK wind farm's ability to meet electricity demand had fallen by a third after around 10 years, leading to a conclusion that many are fully uneconomic to run after only 12 years.
While the wind industry generally forecasts a 25-year lifespan, the data reveals a different reality about the viability of keeping them spinning so long. Many companies now 'repower' (replace old turbines with new ones) long before the 25-year target to maximise subsidies and output. This often ends the lifespan of the original hardware much sooner.
The wind farm study is published by the 'Renewable Energy Foundation on the Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark, 2012'.
Tens of thousands of slabs of reinforced concrete weighing up to 1,000 tonnes are being abandoned in the ground as turbines hit the end of their working lives.
The reinforced concrete base of a typical 2-3 MW wind turbine can weigh anywhere from 400 to 800 tonnes. But the concrete foundations of even bigger turbines (5 MW+) can exceed 1,000 tonnes. As lifespans end these massive concrete monoliths are abandoned where they lie. This is an issue of significant contention.
In many jurisdictions, including Australia and the US, decommissioning regulations only require the operator to ensure the concrete foundation stays at a depth of 1 meter (approx. 3.3 feet) below the surface.
The remaining 3-plus metres of these steel-reinforced concrete fossils are typically left in the ground indefinitely. Over the decades, they can interfere with deep-soil hydrology or remain as a permanent industrial remnant in rural landscapes.
Contracts usually say operators are responsible for decommissioning. But the financial reality is complex. Bank guarantees or bonds set aside for removal (around €50,000 or $100,000 per turbine) are frequently far too low. Real-world estimates for total removal and site restoration can exceed $200,000 to $400,000 per unit.
If the cost of total removal ($200k–$400k) exceeds the bond set aside by the operator ($50k–$100k), there is a strong financial incentive for companies to declare bankruptcy . Or they sell the asset to a shell company as the turbine nears its end-of-life, leaving a landowner with the bill.
While the steel towers are more easily recyclable, their triple fibreglass blades are notoriously difficult to process and often end up in turbines blade graveyards.
The theoretical benefits from renewable technology are meaningless compared with the staggering environmental costs.
“What kind of a depraved monster slices off a woman’s breast while she is being gang raped, and throws it into the dust to be used as a plaything? What kind of a twisted pervert turns rape into necrophilia by shooting a woman in the head while he is still defiling her?
What kind of ‘freedom fighters’ go into battle with a set of handy Arabic-to-Hebrew phrases, including ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’?
What self-respecting human being presses nails, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers and other household tools into a woman’s genitals?
How hard do you have to rape someone, and with what, to shatter their pelvis? Who shoots a young girl in the face and then films her mutilated corpse on her brother’s mobile phone?
The answer is: Hamas terrorists. This is the stark reality of what they did to men, women and children on October 7, 2023. And the world must never forget.”
@WestminsterWAG
After more than two years of independent investigation, the Civil Commission has released a comprehensive report documenting sexual and gender-based violence committed by Hamas on October 7 and during hostage captivity.
The report is not only a historical record — it is a call for recognition, accountability, and justice.
Please read and share:
https://t.co/3ASO3PWyNF
#October7 #NeverForget #HumanRights #Justice
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Recently, I had the chance to take part in a public conversation with Mosab Hassan Yousef – “The Green Prince”.
Mosab is pure intensity. Every word counts, every sentence hits like a truth-bomb. For two hours straight – razor-sharp insights, almost prophetic.
Very few people in the world have walked the path he has (if any), which makes his insights on the current situation truly unique and eye-opening.
Many people have asked me what he said about the Palestinians, Israelis, children in Gaza ,Western leaders, Antisemitism, possible solutions to the war – and about himself
Here’s the essence 👇
This is a must listen by @MelanieLatest
An absolute must.
https://t.co/Teb1DR5iFW
“Palestinianism is a moral cancer in the West - which has corrupted intellectual elites, fried the collective brain, and destroyed the West’s ability to distinguish truth from lies and the ability, therefore, to defend its own way of life”
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“The indigenous people of the land are the Jews and the Palestinian people do not exist.
They say it themselves, we invented it to twist the minds of the West”
Der forensische Psychiater Prof. Dr. Urbaniok sagt die unbequeme Wahrheit! Ausländer-Gewaltkriminalität hat kulturelle Ursachen - nicht soziale! Seine Diagnose: 180-Grad-Wende bei Migration oder Deutschland wird lebensgefährlich! Während linke und grüne Politiker weiter Realitäten leugnen, warnt der Experte vor dem Kollaps 🙏
@TheodorHolman Vreselijk jammer en vreemd dat je weg moet bij het Parool. Ik las je columns altijd als eerste in het Parool vanwege je originele, eigenzinnige en goed geschreven kleine en grote onderwerpen.
🎥Voormalig NOS-directeur Bauke Geersing uit felle kritiek op de eenzijdige berichtgeving van de NOS.
Hij signaleert een verschuiving van feiten naar meningen in de journalistiek. De NOS houdt volgens Geersing vaak slechts één mening aan, wat leidt tot een gebrek aan objectiviteit en geloofwaardigheid. Bauke pleit dan ook voor de terugkeer naar de journalistieke normen en waarden die ooit werden gehanteerd, om de geloofwaardigheid van de NOS te herstellen.
Hieronder het eerste deel van onze 3-luik met Bauke over de huidige stand van het medialandschap. Het gehele interview vind je ook op onze website: https://t.co/nJtDR9NUDE
Wow. Extremely moving speech.
Share everywhere.
“Jews are the canary in the coal mine”
“15 months ago that canary died on Oct 7th”
One of the most important speeches you will see.
If there is one video you should watch today it’s 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚.
Please put aside 20 mins to watch @lauder_ronald at the Holocaust Memorial.
Michel Houellebecq est le Balzac moderne! Ce livre est fortement recommandé. Het Frans is mooi, persoonlijk en afstandelijk. De slecht vertaalde titel in het Nederlandse is 'Vernietigen'. Beter was: Vergaan.
THE MUST-WATCH VIDEO OF THE YEAR IS HERE. WOW 🙌🏽
This is the most sensational and powerful indictment of the hypocrisy, complicity and dishonesty of the @UN and @FranceskAlbs you will ever see on X or any platform.
@Erin_Molan you are a lioness with no equal. Just wow.
Watch it. Share it. And share it again and again.
Damn girl… you are on 🔥🔥🔥
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!!!
Watch the most incredible piece of moral clarity and brilliance by the ever sensational @Erin_Molan.
I absolutely LOVE this lady. A powerhouse of integrity and brutal honesty.
“The silent majority MUST stop being silent”
An incredible opening statement in a debate about Zionism and antisemitism. A must watch particularly for those who say anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.