Wer mit den Abläufen bei den Vereinten Nationen vertraut ist, weiß genau, wie »unabhängige« Untersuchungskommissionen im Zusammenhang mit Israel dort zustande kommen. Überall anders würden externe Experten zu Mitgliedern solcher Gremien ernannt werden, die a) in keinem Naheverhältnis zu der zu untersuchenden Organisation stehen und b) sich zu dem betroffenen Themenfeld nicht einseitig und voreingenommen positioniert haben. Wer diesen Kriterien nicht entsprechen kann, macht zumindest den Anschein der Befangenheit und wäre deshalb fehl am Platze.
Doch bei den Vereinten Nationen läuft bekanntlich alles anders, sobald es um Israel geht. Voreingenommenheit und offensichtliche Befangenheit sind hier nicht etwa Ausschließungsgründe, sondern vielmehr Voraussetzungen, um für entsprechende Aufgaben infrage zu kommen. Was anderswo indiskutabel wäre, gilt hier als völlig normal, wenn nicht gar erforderlich.
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Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has condemned the occupation of a courtyard at the Free University (FU) by pro-Palestinian activists. At the same time, on Tuesday he supported the strategy of the university, which had immediately informed the police and wanted to have the protest camp evacuated. Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has condemned the occupation of a courtyard at the Free University (FU) by pro-Palestinian activists. At the same time, on Tuesday he supported the strategy of the university, which had immediately informed the police and wanted to have the protest camp evacuated. “We must not look the other way at universities when anti-Semitic slogans and hatred of Jews are spread at universities,” said the CDU politician on Tuesday after a Senate meeting with the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO). He is very grateful to the university for its approach: “I think this consistent approach is completely right.”
According to Wegner, he doesn't want to experience a situation in Berlin like the one recently experienced at US universities. “We don’t have a situation like this yet. And yet we have a problem,” he said. “We will do everything as the Berlin Senate, so that Jewish students are not afraid to enter universities.”
Wegner did not accept the argument of diversity of opinion with regard to the protests. “Anti-Semitism is not a political opinion. We won’t allow that at universities.”
Die einst seriöse Menschenrechtsorganisation hat sich eine bedenkliche antisemitische Schlagseite zugelegt und fraternisiert mit Vertretern islamistischer Terrororganisationen.
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Nick Hague was selected as one of eight members of the 21st NASA Astronaut class in 2013. Hague was the first astronaut from his class to be assigned to a mission which launched on October 11, 2018. Unfortunately, he and his crewmate Alexey Ovchinin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, were forced to abort the mission when a rocket booster experienced a malfunction shortly after the launch of their Soyuz MS-10. The aborted spacecraft landed safely.
His first flight to the International Space Station was from March 2019 through October 2019 as a a part of the Expeditions 59 and 60 crew. Together, the crew conducted hundreds of experiments, including investigations into devices that mimic the structure and function of human organs, free-flying robots and an instrument to measure Earth’s distribution of carbon dioxide. While at the International Space Station, Hague conducted three spacewalks, totaling 19 hours and 56 minutes with a total of 203 days in space.
Hague was awarded the Order of Courage from the Russian Federation for his actions during the Expedition 57/58 launch abort.
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He was a top flight test engineer in the U.S. Air Force.
He deployed five months to Iraq in support of Iraqi Freedom, conducting experimental airborne reconnaissance.
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23 weeks ago terrorists brought RPGs into sleepy Israeli towns and fired on civilian cars for sport.
Don’t for one second forget how this war started.
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by Rod Liddle
If only our TV news programmes and politicians could bring themselves to call it all ‘Far-Right Terrorism’, then something might get done – because we all know that Far-Right Terrorism is the biggest threat to our democracy. But they don’t. Even though it is, of course, far-right terrorism, lower case – the real far-right terrorism which our politicians do not want to think about and indeed lock people up when they complain a little vociferously about it.
A week or so back the Dutch football club Ajax of Amsterdam played a cup tie against the Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv and as a consequence what the media carefully call ‘pro-Palestinian’ thugs attacked the visiting Jewish supporters, with five hospitalised and 20 to 30 more injured. Many of the attacks were carried out by young men on mopeds – according to one Dutch politician, Moroccan young men on mopeds, which is about as close to actually identifying who these perpetrators might have been as you will get. The Israeli government reacted with shock, booking two planes to bring the football fans home from the fetid ghetto that parts of the decent, liberal Netherlands has become. Dutch politicians lined up to do the platitude stuff. The reliably witless Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, was among the first out of the blocks: ‘I strongly condemn these unacceptable acts. Anti-Semitism has absolutely no place in Europe. And we are determined to fight all forms of hatred.’
Just read that vacuous bilge again – the bloodless and vague ‘unacceptable acts’ and ending with a commitment she does not remotely mean to keep. Oh, and anti-Semitism has absolutely no place in Europe? Au contraire, Ursula. It has many, many places, largely as a consequence of policies enacted by people like you. So, in that crescent (fittingly) of Europe from north-west France, through Belgium to Rotterdam and the Hague – and now arcing further north, to Malmo – these are the places where a large diaspora of Muslims from the Maghreb and the Levant have settled. Hey, it’s just occurred to me – gee, could there perhaps be some connection? If there is you can bank on the mainstream politicians and the mainstream media not to make it.