HOW DID THE 2005 ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA AKA LAND FOR PEACE WORK OUT? TURNS OUT, NOT SO WELL.

In 2005, Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip, manu militari removing some 8,000 Jewish settlers from their homes and in the process destroying their lifework, a blossoming agro-industrial matrix of greenhouses producing tons of high-quality fruit and vegetables, to give the principle 'Land for Peace' a chance:











How did that work out? Turns out, not so well:












And so:

🎥🔴TV Natio world/RadioGenoa

Palestinian terror groups release a video showing a large group of Israeli women that they have captured and taken back to Gaza pic.twitter.com/X81LDfV6RU

— Louis Montpellier Natio (@Natio_1976) October 7, 2023

And so:





And so:

De islamitische terreurorganisatie #Hamas wil met de slachtpartij die ze aangericht hebben in #Israël een oorlog uitlokken in de hoop dat de islamitische wereld hen zal steunen in een open conflict met #Israël. Voor we het weten staat de hele wereld in brand. pic.twitter.com/rVOH724Ro2

— Filip Dewinter (@FDW_VB) October 7, 2023

And so:

"Allahu akbar!" Dít is wat er dus gebeurt wanneer Israël Gaza onvoldoende afsluit tot een zogenaamde 'openluchtgevangenis': moslimterroristen dringen het Joodse staatje binnen en slachten zoveel mogelijk onschuldige Joden af.

Joden die door deze nazi-achtigen worden ontvoerd,… pic.twitter.com/UsgVKb3Mmy

— Sam van Rooy (@SamvanRooy1) October 7, 2023

Pray for all the Israeli abducted, because RIGHT NOW they, and their relatives back in Israel, must go through a nightmare.


Paleostinians, Hamas, Islamic Jihad etc are not interested in peace. They only want the Israeli State to disappear and all Jews DEAD. What is the root cause of this conflict?


Very simple: ISLAM.



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FRANK WHITTLE AND THE EARLY JET ENGINES.

A working one, to be sure, because there is at least one historic predecessor (John Barber, 1731) which could not be realised for a variety of scientific and technological reasons, chief among them probably the metallurgical challenges of developing a jet engine.





The Whittle W.1X, which in April 1941 powered the first UK jet, the Gloster E.28/39:





Whittle was a tremendous genius allright, and yet I cannot fathom why he stubbornly clung to reverse flow combustion? How could a man who engineered such a groundbreaking novelty keep incorporating this feature which instantly 'feels' wrong even for the less engineer-minded? It's clear that the penalty of it is thrust loss, and this for a powerplant in its infancy, which de facto was already weak in output to begin with: its maximum thrust was a mere 850 lbf (3.8 kN) at 16,500 rpm.





A highly recommended book on early jet engines btw is Hermione Giffard's Making Jet Engines in World War 2:





And therein it is detailed, amongst others, that subsequent designers right away dispensed with reverse flow combustion:





A very noteworthy desing was the Halford H1, designed by the legendary Frank Halford (father of the Napier Sabre), and which was a short while later renamed the de Havilland Goblin:





It was such a brilliant design from the start that, although it was conceived in 1941, its basic form remained unchanged until 1954, by which time it had evolved to the Mk. 35 export version. Pictured is the de Havilland Goblin II, which powered the de Havilland Vampire:






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DEMOCRATS ARE CHOOSING THEMSELVES ANOTHER PEOPLE.

JUST IN: Footage has been released of migrants wreaking havoc at the Southern Border last night near El Paso, first reported by @ElPasoYa.

Rest assured: The border is completely secure according to the Biden White House.

In the clip, the migrants appear to be chanting "Si se… pic.twitter.com/4npaZsM36X

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 4, 2023

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— Paul Hookem 🇺🇸 (@PaulHook_em) October 4, 2023

Once they are in the US, the treshold for being allowed to vote is much lower than in Western Europe - and that is already a fairly low treshold. They will vote for whom, do you think? Matt Gaetz?

Biden will go down in history as the stumbling, bumbling architect of America’s demise.

And make no mistake. We are done in a matter of years, not decades, if this keeps up. pic.twitter.com/VIabAX78tt

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 5, 2023

This is the strategy of the left, plain and simple. This Third World wreckage, which will bring in precipitously little skills, knowledge and labor ethic, but which will cause a massive surge in criminality and drug abuse, as well as constitute a large drain on a social security system already strained to the limit, is the life insurance of democrats. It's the same over here, btw.


I'm not saying there's no worthy, industrious individuals among these people. But they come from cultures and countries which very obviously cannot guarantee their adherents and citizens safe and dignified lives. They hail from places where corruption, mysogyny and crime are commonplace and where accountability and respect for human rights in general are sorely lacking and... they will import these features in our countries as well. Blocking these cohorts is not an act of selfishness; it is an act of survival. Allow these cultures in, and our countries will in time turn into the same hellholes as where these people come from. This is sad, but true.


Anyway, Leftists, being the criminals that they are, are choosing themselves another people. That's it. That's all. It's about staying in power forever, reckoning that the newcomers will vote for the candy distributing party. And why wouldn't they?



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RECOMMENDED READS: "LET'S MAKE HOLLYWOOD MANLY AGAIN" BY KEVIN SORBO.

In this insane (Western) world where everything that was once understood to be beautiful, noble and worthwhile is now suspect, a voice like Kevin Sorbo's is a welcome relief. Over at FOX News:

..."Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so," quipped Elastigirl in Pixar’s "The Incredibles."

That was 2004. Since then, Helen Parr’s popular feminist maxim has come to define Hollywood’s endemic anti-man ethos. Her words seem to underlie every major entry for cinema’s largest metonym, from recent "girl-boss" movies to more male-oriented films, all of which include an obligatory nod to the superior strength, intelligence and independence of womankind.

Everywhere we look, bold, confident, self-assured females upstage passive men who recede quietly into the background. Into the basement. Into the past.

Fathers, in particular, have become the butt of every woke Hollywood jab, the bumbling, useless idiots who contribute nothing to their families or communities, but sacrifice themselves as objects of ridicule.

Does Hollywood fear good men? Not necessarily big, bulky men with daunting physiques – those aren’t in too short supply on today’s big screen. Good men. Admirable men. Men we’d want our sons to emulate and daughters to date.

Society today seriously misunderstands masculinity. On the one hand, we love to normalize androgynous, Billy Porter-type men who sport skirts and poofy dresses. GQ’s 2019 best-dressed man, Timothée Chalamet, for example, often wears clothes that, well… let’s just say your grandfather wouldn’t have been caught dead dressed like Chalamet.




(CRIPES)


On the other hand, our favorite movies are heavily populated with brawny macho men. I should know – I made a name for myself in the industry playing a Greek half-god.

But is that really all that it takes to be a good man? No. In fact, you can work out and dress like a man’s man – ridiculing "betas" like Dylan Mulvaney and Chalamet – and still fall prey to the masculinity crisis.

How?

In order to go out and conquer the world, men must first conquer themselves. Sadly, men today have often instead been conquered. We’ve been subdued by alcohol, drugs, video games, porn and other entertainment. The caricature of the useless man in his parents’ basement increasingly depicts real life.

It doesn’t really matter what end of the masculinity spectrum you fall on; if you’re a victim to your own base desires, the feminist culture has won. You’re exactly the kind of wussy man they (think they) want you to be.

In reality, America today needs warriors; protectors; responsible and committed fathers. We certainly don’t need another MCU-esque superhero. We need men who will raise their kids, defend their homes, provide for their families, and serve self-sacrificially – all of which is impossible if they are dissipated and addicted to pleasure.

The call of duty to today’s man is to rise above what society and the media say he is doomed to be, becoming instead the servant leader his family and community so desperately require..."

Read it all.


Follow Kevin Sorbo on X.



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GREAT WALKS: YOKE, ILL BELL, FROSWICK AND TROUTBECK IN THE LAKE DISTRICT.

Something to battle the negativity, this marvellous account of an early Spring walk in the Lake District:





I can sympathize. I have vacationed in that glorious piece of real estate five times. But to be sure, the video deals with the southeast, a corner I have yet to discover. I am more familiar with the West, where, e.g., from the top of Great Gable you are rewarded with this sight:





... or the North, where Keswick rests between Derwentwater and the Skiddaw range:





... or the South, with the Coniston Old Man looms over its namesake village:





I climbed the Coniston Old Man in 2015, Blencathra in 2020, and Skiddaw and Great Gable both in 2021. And I'm a happier man for it! If you don't know the Lake District yet, go and discover it!




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DEFINITELY WORTH LISTENING TO.

Indeed.

Worth listening. These are important issues. https://t.co/ex3rT8zGVe

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2023

Welcome to the Belgian Method. In my country, 32 years ago Greens doctored the so-called 'cordon sanitaire', which essentially excludes Vlaams Belang from governing. It's 2023, and a staggering 52% of Flemings *WANT* Vlaams Belang, which according to a poll held last week captures 25% of Flemish votes, to form a Flemish government with N-VA, a center-right party. Yet the traditional parties INCLUDING the 'top brass' of N-VA would do anything to block this.





The numbers of 52% and 25% are actually far more impressive than they sound, for in Belgium the Umvolkung has in the meantime assumed such gigantic proportions that between one in three and one in four of Belgian inhabitants are of foreign extraction. Especially during the last decade Population Replacement has accelerated to such an extent that it's near impossible to comprehend. My own hometown, pop. about 34,000, is rapidly becoming a cross between Kinshasa and Marrakesh. It's truly unbelievable. So when a poll says '25% of Flemings would vote VB', that actually means that about 30% of 'Bioflemings' would do so, since one can safely assume that your run of the mill Afghan teenager, aged 24 and receiving a 'Groeipakket' worth 3,500 EUR courtesy the socialists, would not vote VB in a million years.



The ones shouting the hardest for democracy to uphold, are actually the ones doing their damnedest best to destroy it.



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The only thing I hold against Trump is that he tried to force Pence to declare the election results invalid, invoking an obscure 19th century regulation which supposedly gives the veep power to do so. That's all. He did indeed lose the pedals then and there. But from a psychological POV it was entirely understandable.


There are no, repeat, NO rational grounds to be against Trump, whom I consider to be the civilian equivalent of a General Patton. He is a man with flaws, certainly, but his presidency was an indisputable boon for the economy, he did protect the borders, brought peace in the Middle East, tried with some success to curb rampant regulation; the Russian collusion was a complete and utter hoax; and last but not least, it is crystal clear that Trump passionately loves his country. I will take someone like him, admittedly with some quirks, over a criminal who opens the borders wide to millions of illegals and drug cartels anytime (and these are perhaps the least of his sins):

Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal crossings.

Today the Biden Admin CUT that wire, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants.

I immediately deployed more Texas National Guard to repel illegal crossings & install more razor wire. pic.twitter.com/eMtLS8Z6WI

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 20, 2023

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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: JOHN KOCH, EDWARD HOPPER.

Three musicians by John Koch (August 18, 1909 — April 19, 1978), an American painter and teacher who started out as an impressionist but instead over time became a prominent figure in 20th century Realism.





His most famous work is probably The Cocktail Party (1956). That's Koch himself at the bar, pouring Martinis for his guests. Simply gorgeous!



City Roofs (1932), by Edward Hopper. Although half a generation older than Koch, a contemporary nevertheless. A New Yorker too and also a Realist, although more in the sense that his subjects, like Koch's, very often depict ordinary Americans in ordinary situations, doing ordinary things.





Out of his vast oeuvre, it seems that he will forever be associated with Nighthawks. I say it's genius.



Good night.



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