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[Marcel Vink @marcelvink888]

Uitstappen, schreeuwen en intimideren. De aso van deze week rijdt over de N307 en is bij Kampen totaal de weg kwijt. De man die tegen alles en iedereen tekeer gaat, wil iets uit z’n achterklep pakken, maar dat mislukt https://t.co/SsSv3KU1r6

[Arthur van Amerongen @DonArturito]

Acht jaar voor verkrachter Mohammed. In Nederland had hij een uurtje moeten schoffelen

https://t.co/KSLucWxEZR

[Carel Brendel @CarelBrendel]

Het verstoren van andermans herdenking trekt kennelijk meer Pallie-activisten dan het meedoen aan een eigen demonstratie. #Rotterdam #Loods24

[Maarten Keulemans @mkeulemans]

Je zal toch bij https://t.co/Or09tH1BLf werken en moeten meewerken aan het peilen van de maffe privégrillen van je baas...

[Detlef La Grand @detleflg]

@mauricedehond @vanranstmarc Hier is een overzicht.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/fjZcHmZUH1

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.

The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.

I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.

In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.

Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.

The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.

These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.

It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.

If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:

"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5

"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H

"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs

[GeenStijl @geenstijl]

RAAR. Kritische column over Femke Halsema plotseling van website Volkskrant verdwenen https://t.co/2Apq2GGgbf

[Lou Lewinsky 2 @lewinskylou2]

Lisa Pronk and Lisa Ross. Both are MURDERED by ASYLUM SEEKERS.

Continuing to grant asylum is suicide!
#stopasylum @notsjuul

[René Kemp ⭐ @rkemp59]

Topstuk van Leon de Winter over de desinformatie-machine 🎯

Als het aantal Palestijnen in 20 jaar met 67% is gegroeid, is gebruik van het woord genocide een obscene leugen om de Joden te demoniseren

[Maurice de Hond @mauricedehond]

Nieuw onderzoek van https://t.co/UAcb8SAv5t aat zien dat nu 44% van de Nederlanders denkt dat het virus uit het lab afkomstig is (was 32%), 42% van de markt en 14% weet het niet.
https://t.co/eeRXm1zxlY

[Maaike van Charante @Repelsteeltje21]

Dit is echt niet te geloven.
In een zitting over de walgelijke spreekkoren in Sidney op 9 oktober 2023 (F*k the Jews! Where's the Jews?!) krijgen 'pro-Palestijnse' advocaten ruim baan om een Joodse getuige te grillen over... allerlei beschuldigingen tegen Israël.🤦‍♂️

[Maurice de Hond @mauricedehond]

Ik vind het langzamerhand pathetisch worden om door @mkeulemans "desinformatiepaus" genoemd te worden. En dat dus door een journalist die 5 citaten van mij heeft opgevoerd, die ik nooit gezegd heb en die haaks staan op wat ik beweerd heb.
Benieuwd hoe RvJ daarover zal oordelen.

[Bart Nijman @BartNijman]

Minister van Staat liegt over leerstoelen

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have discovered that the fungus Aspergillus tubingensis, isolated from a landfill in Islamabad, Pakistan, can rapidly break down polyurethane, one of the world’s most durable plastics. This material is widely used in insulation, furniture, footwear, coatings, and synthetic leather, and it typically persists in the environment for hundreds of years.

In laboratory tests, the fungus colonizes the surface of polyurethane films, secreting enzymes that disrupt its chemical bonds. Scanning electron microscopy revealed clear signs of degradation, including cracks, pits, and surface erosion. Within just two months in liquid culture, the plastic films were broken down into smaller fragments, with near-complete degradation observed.

This represents the first reported case of A. tubingensis degrading polyurethane. The process is an example of mycoremediation, the use of fungi to clean up environmental pollutants. Other fungi have also shown the ability to use plastics as a primary food source, even in low-oxygen landfill conditions.

Researchers are now exploring the potential of fungal enzymes for large-scale applications, such as bioreactors, to help address the global plastic waste crisis. If scaled effectively, these biological approaches could offer a practical, low-cost method to reduce the billions of tons of persistent plastic accumulating worldwide.

[Khan, S., et al. (2017). Biodegradation of polyester polyurethane by Aspergillus tubingensis. Environmental Pollution, 225, 469–480. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.03.012]

[MR @SplinterCees]

Industrial chicken farming drives evolution of foodborne bacteria strains
https://t.co/wNNqOnVGbC

[Oscar Hammerstein @HammersteinO]

De bestorming van de Spaanse exclave is een directe confrontatie met wat er gebeurt als een nationale regering door onwil, onkunde en laksheid haar burgers niet tegen massa-immigratie beschermt. #Spanje #CeutaEnPeligro

[Mick van Wely @mickvanwely]

Dit mag dus wel. Maar een cartoon met twee Mocro’s op een scooter die de wereldbeker stalen, werd verwijderd… Terugkerend dingetje: als het om joden gaat, is alles geoorloofd. Alle joden worden over 1 kam geschoren. Moet je eens bij Marokkanen proberen..

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

The IDF just eliminated Abd al-Rahim Abd al-Hay Youssef Kardi who held Noa Marciano’s body hostage and also worked as a DOCTOR. A medical professional murdered Noa by injecting air into her veins while she begged for her life. This is justice for Noa.

[Steije Hofhuis @HofhuisSteije]

De Onderwijsadviesraad bepleitte gebruik van de thuistaal van kinderen in onderwijs. Ik vermoedde al dat dit advies meer op ideologische wensen dan onderzoek berustte, en dat wordt door een mooi onderzoek van @NieuweDenktank en @BestuurBon bevestigd! https://t.co/MCHuQzTIDG