Waarom ligt een onderwerp zoals het Midden-Oosten zo gevoelig?
Het ligt "gevoelig" als je over de Israëliërs en de Palestijnen schrijft. Het wordt uiterst gevoelig als je de politiek er buiten houdt, maar de geschiedenis en gebeurtenissen in jouw schrijfwerk betrekt en dan ook nog eens het internationaal recht erbij haalt. Dan leg je de feiten bloot, en dat is nou net wat de Israëliërs niet willen.
Maar mijn artikelen gaan niet uitsluitend over het Midden-Oosten en ik wil nadrukkelijk erop wijzen dat de inhoud niet de gevestigde opvattingen en meningen vertegenwoordigt, maar een eigen koers volgt.
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Why is a subject like the Middle East such a sensitive issue?
It is a sensitive topic when writing about Israelis and Palestinians. It becomes extremely sensitive if you leave politics aside but incorporate history and events into your writing—and then bring international law into the mix as well. That is when you lay the facts bare, and that is precisely what the Israelis do not want.
However, my articles do not deal exclusively with the Middle East, and I wish to emphasize that the content does not reflect established views or opinions but follows its own independent path.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as Congo (Kinshasa) or the DRC, is a vast country in Central Africa centered on the Congo Basin. It is home to dense tropical rainforests, major river systems, and a wealth of natural resources. Well, the latter is the topic in this article.
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Er zijn tientallen, zoniet honderdtallen meningen over de vraag wat religie nu eigenlijk is. Ik heb decennia lang verschillende websites her en der gehad maar nog nooit mijn mening over dit onderwerp geplaatst. Daar komt nu verandering in.
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In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity. There are 50 states. Bound together in a political union, each state has governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory, where it shares its sovereignty with the federal government.
If we all would believe, a 51st state could be in the making.
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A gulf is a large inlet from an ocean into a landmass, typically (though not always) with a narrower opening than a bay. The term was used traditionally for large, highly indented navigable bodies of salt water that are enclosed by the coastline.
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President Donald Trump’s pick to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations became the latest administration nominee to express the belief that Israel has “biblical” dominion over the occupied West Bank.
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I have been participating in a project that documents the situation in Syria since the second month of 2011, which is more than ten years.
However, I don't want to write about Syria's history from its beginning to the present. That would result in a book, while I only like to write short stories. So, I will set aside most of Syria's history to focus on the fall of the Assad family's rule, which lasted more than half a century.
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The definition of 'terror' is extreme fear. The '-ism' at the end of the word 'terror' is a suffix indicating that 'terror' refers to acts and activities related to causing extreme fear, while 'terrorizing' refers to the act of causing extreme fear. Now, how is that in a country that is under occupation since 1967.
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| Whenever the Israelis wage war on Gaza and/or attack the occupied people in the West Bank, in East Jerusalem, and at the Al Aqsa compound, the claim of antisemitism emerges when they are criticized, and in response, somewhere in the world, Jews are targeted. Now, let us look at the question of when you speak about antisemitism. |