Chair Int. @EIA_NCEA / @AIV_advies / fmr Ambassador @Cordaid @NIMD | @WorldGovSummit | @UNANL | @ZakendoenAfrika #Leadership4Posterity
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Really? Had to think today of an interview I had some time ago with Mohamed @ElBaradei, former IAEA Director General and ex-Egyptian Vice President. He said about the failure of the ‘Arab Spring’: the people of Egypt had no experience with democracy, people actually did not know what democracy means.
Yes, democracy was a dream, a deeply felt wish. But what was needed, what should happen after the successful demonstrations, was unclear. Large-scale demonstrations led to the overthrow of the leadership. Infrastructure and expereinced leadership to effectively fill the gaps, lacked.
At the same time, the deep state was supreme, according to ElBaradei: so, faces were simply replaced by other faces. And then the Arab Spring died a silent death. The protests imploded, people were harrassed, violently punished, and voices silenced.
Think for example of #Libya, #Iraq, #Iran.
What’s the difference after 50 years of theocratic oppression with the situation in Egypt in 2011.. ?
The bombing by Israel and the US is not only illegal, but extremely risky as well, endangering regional stability and costing many additional civilians’ lives. And also think about the influence on oil prices.
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Two+yrs ago I said: " I long for the day there will be an investigation on the role of Western media in the genocide in Gaza".
From the very beginning many authoritative media have acted unprofessionally and irresponsible.
My last report proves there is more. And it's ugly.
Reproducir las afirmaciones del poder en lugar de someterlas a escrutinio no es periodismo y puede contribuir a crímenes atroces
El nuevo informe de la relatora de la ONU sobre los medios de comunicación en tiempos de genocidio ↘️
eldiario.es/opinion/zona-cri…
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Lana Nusseibeh, the United Arab Emirates diplomat who is suddenly being promoted as a candidate for UN secretary general, hasn't only lied about the UAE role in sending arms and mercenaries to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces paramilitary in Sudan. She has also lied and covered up the UAE role in killing civilians in Yemen. Some examples:
1. mofa.gov.ae/en/mediahub/news… but see hrw.org/world-report/2017/co…
2. mofa.gov.ae/en/MediaHub/News…
3. wam.ae/en/article/hszr76ab-u…
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Together with our partners, the Netherlands reaffirms its continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the @IntlCrimCourt in this joint statement:
government.nl/documents/2026…
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Max Blumenthal has been reporting critically on Israel for twenty years, in the face of censorship and death threats. Now he’s been detained by the Trump administration.
0:00 Blumenthal's Trip to Iran and Getting Detained
17:05 The Paid Propagandists
19:29 Blumenthal Suing the Federal Government
28:51 The Lies About October 7th
34:56 Randy Fine's Bloodlust and Attacks on the US Constitution
37:22 Is Blumenthal Under Investigation by the Trump Administration?
37:54 Why Blumenthal Thinks Zionism Needs Anti-Semitism to Survive
51:54 The Information War and Israel's Obsession With Latin America
1:04:43 Leaked AIPAC Audio
1:05:53 What Is Israel's Big Picture Goal?
1:11:05 Netanyahu's Plan to Get Trump Into War With Iran
1:19:06 Salem Media and TPUSA
1:25:44 The Assassination Attempts on Trump
1:32:36 How Will the Iran War End?
1:39:07 The Fall of MAGA and Attacks on America First Voices
1:43:17 What Happened to TPUSA?
1:53:26 The Destructiveness of Christian Zionism
1:58:39 How Does This All End?
2:07:32 Will We See a Third Party Win in 2028?
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Millions of Americans are learning for the first time about Israel’s genocidal “Where’s Daddy” targeting system, and the IDF’s policy of exterminating entire Gaza families in their homes while they sleep
Kan iemamd me uitleggem waarom een partij met twee zetels in ons Parlement en zulke waardevolle inbreng - @BoerBurgerB - zoveel aandacht krijgt?
Terecht dat de bespottelijke houding van @henkvermeer blootgelegd wordt tijdens @pauwendewit. En goed dat @MinPres @RobJetten hem niet heeft uitgenodigd voor vervolggesprekken.
#goedkopepolitiek
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Gideon Levy in Ha'arets over de reacties in Israël op de documentaire NAZA
'Deze hysterie legt iets bloot dat jarenlang verborgen bleef, maar plotseling is uitgebarsten. Na jaren van onderdrukking, ontkenning en leugens, apathie en onverschilligheid, is de etter in een krachtige stroom naar buiten gekomen. Dit is een gezond proces, ook al gaat het gepaard met lelijke verschijningsvormen.
Israël is bruusk uit zijn ziekelijke kalmte gewekt. Plotseling gaat het gesprek over Gaza in plaats van alleen over de prijzen van vluchten naar het buitenland.
"NAZA" heeft de losgekoppeldheid van de werkelijkheid waarin Israëliërs leefden, doorbroken. Dit was te voorzien, ook al leek het er lange tijd op dat niets de Israëliërs uit hun evenwicht zou kunnen brengen. Maar de heftigheid van de reacties toont aan dat het om een groot abces gaat.
De razernij die zich op Szor en Abraham richt, laat zien dat zij de kern van het abces hebben weten te raken. En dat doet pijn. De intensiteit van de reactie verraadt dat Israëliërs voelen dat de grond onder hun voeten heet wordt. Wie zo woedend reageert, beseft dat er iets grondig mis is. Een samenleving die overtuigd is van haar eigen gelijk, reageert niet op die manier op een film.
Deze storm zal wellicht gaan liggen, maar de hevigheid ervan zou ook een keerpunt kunnen inluiden. Nadat we de makers van de film op het stadsplein hebben opgehangen, zal iemand misschien begrijpen dat dit een laatste, wanhopige poging was om de waarheid te ontwijken, de kop in te drukken en te onderdrukken.
Maar die waarheid zal Israël voor altijd blijven achtervolgen, want aan de verantwoordelijkheid voor genocide valt niet te ontkomen. Vraag het maar aan de Turken. Deze schuld zal ons nooit met rust laten. Het zal een eeuwige schande zijn.
"NAZA" leverde nog een belangrijke bijdrage: het rukte alle maskers af. Voortaan is er geen sprake meer van links en rechts, verlichte en verblinde mensen, humanisten en barbaren. Vrijwel eensgezind stortten Israëliërs zich op deze film en toonden daarmee hun ware gezicht.
Racistische journalisten stonden zij aan zij met mensen die als liberaal golden; nationalistische politici verenigden zich met politici die als democratisch te boek stonden. Samen vormden ze één koor in de geest van McCarthy
Ze weten dat "NAZA" de waarheid vertelt. Maar ze willen de namen weten van de geïnterviewde soldaten, zodat ook zij – net als de regisseurs – op het stadsplein kunnen worden opgehangen.
Szor, Abraham en die moedige soldaten hebben de stilte doorbroken. Ze verdienen groot respect in Israël, en dat zullen ze ook krijgen – maar pas op de bladzijden van de geschiedenisboeken.
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Apartheid Israel created the largest # of child amputees in modern history in Gaza and is now preventing crutches from entering Gaza. Israel is a caricature of pure evil.
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Watch: Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, speaking at the launch of our new report, The Elimination Project, and calling on the international community to act:
“How much more evidence do you need before you act? Statements do not protect anyone until they become action. Every day without meaningful action gives Israel more time to deepen this project and make it harder to reverse.”
The Elimination Project shows how Israel is systematically using interconnected mechanisms: violence, displacement, restrictions on movement, economic strangulation and political repression to dismantle the conditions that allow Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while expanding and entrenching Israeli control and Jewish supremacy.
The international community must stop treating these isolated violations and end the impunity that allows this system to continue.
Read the full report >> btselem.org/the_elimination_…
Just donated! So important we support the ones who really need it!! xitter.cf/WFPehecones
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"The UAE is certainly a bridge – of gun runners, money launderers, gold smugglers, sanction busters, and mercenaries and spies"
✍️ Opinion by David Hearst
middleeasteye.pulse.ly/0r382…
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An unbelievable racist comment from this privileged nepo-baby. Gaza didn’t work because the repressive Israeli didn’t allow it to work. From the beginning of the occupation, Israel denied Palestinians the opportunity to grow & prosper. In 2006, they turned Gaza into a prison camp
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Oshrit Aliga, an Israeli prison security officer, seen here joking about inserting her baton into Palestinian prisoners that require "a fair number of disinfections." Reminder that Apartheid Israel operates the most well-documented network of rape dungeons on earth.
A horrific expose on the murder of Palestinian prisoner Tha'er Abu Assab, a Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot prison by guards in November 2023 appeared in Haaretz today.
Among the most damning evidence in the case are the texts of one warden, Oshrit Aliga, who as you can see in the video inlcuded here was literally the poster child for the Israeli Prison Services. Here are the texts verbatim:
On the night Tha'er Abu Assab, was murdered, she texted a friend: "Sweetie, here is an update for you, he's dead now." She added that she was "very happy and satisfied, but it's a mess right now. There was a lot of blood and they broke them."
Follow-up clarification to her friend:
"It'll be fine, I'm glad it happened. I'm ready to put my career on the line for this, I'm at peace with it, all of us are. The commander knew something like this would happen. he told us in the briefing and also asked, whoever feels they can't handle it should say so, because he really wanted to break them. I'm really fine, but you know how it is, investigations and all that mess."
WhatsApp exchange with her friend, December 2023 (re: new detainees arriving):
"They brought some Amalek-son whores down in the middle of the street, sitting there on the ground with just underwear and blindfolds on. I'm already getting myself and the shift ready to receive them for Shabbat, we will give them a proper Shabbat reception."
Responding to her friend's joke about her baton: "My club is fine, after a fair number of disinfections."
"Imagine me and you in a cell with two prisoners cuffed hand to hand, and the shift commander tells us 'go ahead, cut loose', sweetie, I swear you'd have enjoyed it here with me."
When her friend asked if she physically hits them: "I wish I had a way to prove it to you, to show you something, I swear to you, sis, I break them apart. You've never known me like this. [This is] routine. [When the] next round comes, if I haven't cracked one of his kidneys, as far as I'm concerned I'm not going into the wing."
WhatsApp exchange with her domestic partner, corrections officer Tamer Trudi, same month:
"We got another 70 whores from October 7th. Each one of course got a personal welcome, and some got a joint one because of the [limited] supply of handcuffs."
After Trudi replied "Haha, how nice that there's always a welcome": "And since we were already tired from hitting them, the commander took off his belt and undid it on them. And the screaming , like females — at minimum they're a punching bag."
Watch the video to see her enthusiastic physical training that allows her to murder and torture inmates. She has not been charged for her crimes despite the overwhelming evidence, though others have for that murder.
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Via een in Amsterdam geregistreerd bedrijf, Havas NV, besteedt Israël tientallen miljoenen aan PR-bedrijven voor de manipulatie van AI-chatbots en sociale mediacampagnes. Het doel: het publiek misleiden. rightsforum.org/israel-zet-n…
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Nu er weer een strenge winter voor de deur staat en Oekraïne tekortkomt aan luchtverdediging, moeten we hen zelf in staat stellen de lanceerinstallaties van Poetin uit te schakelen. Daarvoor zijn langeafstandswapens nodig.
Nederland moet bijdragen waar het kan, zoals met kruisraketten en steun bij licentieproductie. Voor andere landen geldt hetzelfde. Alleen samen helpen we het dappere Oekraïne de winter door.
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Congratulations South Africa Legal Team. What a gift to humanity you are.
South Africa has officially submitted a substantial dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing Israel’s continued non-compliance with legally binding provisional measures.
The submission, formally handed over on 25 August 2026, serves to assist an ICJ committee of judges tasked with monitoring the implementation of the court’s orders in Gaza.
According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Israel’s non-compliance directly undermines the protective functions of international justice.
Hence, the submission is a vital milestone in the struggle for global accountability. By formally documenting Israel’s refusal to adhere to the court’s binding provisional measures, Pretoria is doing far more than advocating for Palestinian survival.
Read the latest commentary by Iqbal Jassat.
palestinechronicle.com/south…
Over de verkiezingen van een nieuwe secretaris generaal van de VN @UN
DRC envoy tells media @UN the Security Council's 1st straw poll will be held on Thursday, July 30, most likely in the morning, in the SC's consultation room. The latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring, Olara Ottunu, of Uganda, will be included in the poll, even though he has not gone through the GA public hearing. This could set a path for others to jump over that process.
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Two years ago, on 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice confirmed that Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and clarified the obligations of all States not to recognize or assist that unlawful situation, and to cooperate in bringing it to a rapid end.
Since then, the law has become clearer. Implementation has not.
This article reflects on what has changed over the past two years, with particular attention to developments in the West Bank and Gaza, and the continuing uncertainty surrounding the duty of international cooperation. It argues that the principal challenge today is no longer identifying the applicable law, but giving practical content to one of the Court's most significant findings: the obligation of States to cooperate in bringing an unlawful situation to an end.
After the Court Spoke: Duty to Cooperate on the Question of Palestine
linkedin.com/pulse/after-cou…
