Monday, November 30, 2009

I am not a number

By David Verveer

It all started with the visit to the family doctor in the near by polyclinic. In the early days (about 30 years ago), the patients arriving to see the doctor would write there name on a piece of paper, and according the order in this paper, they would enter the doctor's room. Of course there were exemptions, soldiers in uniform, who had to return fast to the army, were ushered in and seen by the doctor without queue, also people with small babies in their care, were pushed through, of course there were also people, who only want to ask the doctor a question, wont take a second, and in they went, but that did not mean that they would come out just as quick. Of course, people clearly suffering, complaining of pain and misery, would jump some positions in waiting, but in general, the system worked quiet well, people who needed to see the doctor, would take in advance a half free day from work. But I did not mention the horror, called "people with protection", which would come in, walk strait to the door, knock on the door, without waiting, enter, and after a few minutes the poor patient who was half way explaining the doctor his complains, would be asked to wait for a few minutes outside, as the newly arrived person had "protection".

What was protection, the best protection was to be friend with the doctor, or his superiors, but also officials serving the Union, or friend of the Mayor would get the protection. But don't think that the patients in the waiting room would take all this in silence, a heavy argument would develop, in which everybody in the room explained why he can't wait, why he should have received protection, you would learn about their horrible diseases, theirs and their family, but apparently most would survive and endure the waiting.

But than started the reform, doctors told their patients to phone to the office for an appointment, and indeed, when you arrive at the pre arranged time, you get a number, and after waiting, more or less, one hour, you go in to see your doctor, who has already your file at hand, and efficiently starts to hand out recipes to cure your complaint. The new system is very efficient, but highly contagions, suddenly we get numbers at the butchers in the super market, the dispensary, even the post office.

Here in Israel, one is asked everywhere for your ID number, your name is only in order to check if you do not pretend to be somebody else, and, I have to admit, I do not remember my ID number by heart, which is considered dumb, is it not anough that I have to remember my phone number, my computer password, that I remember my post code, my ex army number and even my student number at high school. Do they realize that I am not a number; I am a human, with a family and private name, and even a code name, but not a number, I realize that it is a matter of getting used to it, and see in the future, a mother calling her son, 325/9 come to mama, but not me, I am not a number.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

the motorbike demonstration

The motorbike demonstration

By David Verveer

The Israeli insurance companies have raised the insurance on motorbikes with 24% starting today, the 15th of November, on the first working day of the week.
Generally on Sunday, the entrances to the economic capitol Tel Aviv are from 7 o'clock until 10 o'clock blocked by private and public transport trying to get to the work sites, and people waste lots of time getting to work. But today, those angry motorcyclists by thousands decided to block the entrances of the metropolis, by driving slow in large groups, preventing anybody to pass them, in order to create a chaos, and an absolute non ending traffic jam.

Many people, who come from the periphery of Tel Aviv, out towns from the Sharon or from the south, decided to take an earlier bus or even take the train, packed to the maximum with desperate passengers, but as the train will not be affected by traffic jams, it is a preferable alternative, than sitting in busses the entire morning.
My wife made it by an earlier bus and arrived without any traffic jams two hours too early, and as she missed out breakfast this morning, she will go and get a cup of coffee, before going to the office.

In actual fact, the public views with sympathy the motorcyclist's demonstration, as the increased cost for motorbike insurance is unfair and irresponsible measure of the government, which only result will be an increase of old cheap cars in the already congested streets of the Israeli towns, where it is impossibilities in finding a parking space to leave your car during working hours.

Especially Tel Aviv, but also other towns in Israel do not have subways, city trains and other public transport, besides the busses and taxis, crowding the streets. People, even though, more expensive, prefer to drive with their own cars into town, and in most cases the cars are without any passengers besides the driver. Of course this traffic congestion does not contribute to the air quality in town, and the air pollution level reaches dangerous levels in the Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

Not to mention that the traffic accidents annually reach in average 450 dead, much more than the annually death caused by the military and terroristic acts of Israel's enemies, however, peculiarly the sacrifices caused by traffic accidents don't reach the world press, while any aggravation or terrorist act are directly published worldwide in the media. I wonder if the deaths, caused through traffic accidents are less tragic for the families, than killing of innocent civilians, by acts of terror.

But in the end, all this is a sadistic game with taxing and revenues, in which the poor and less fortunate are forced to pay impossible payments, while the rich get tax exemptions, and receive illogical large salaries, with a lame excuse that we do not want to frighten off the investors, but what with your young and the retired citizens, who have no means to pay for Netanyahu's financial outlook, indeed it was important that Israel remains economical healthy, and we are thankful (I think) that the financial crisis is over, but for heavens name, the only ones who paid for these phenomena are the lower classes, the retired, the poor and sick. No efforts were made to tax those huge investors, for whom a ten percent tax increase would hardly play a part in their profits, while taxing the poor 1% more, would mean thousands more incapable in finishing the month.

How come that every time the Likud takes over the government after winning the election (this time they even did not win but were able to construct a funny right wing coalition), suddenly the Government tells us that we have to tighten our belt, we have to contribute in order to save the countries economy, with temporary taxes, increase in costs for basic needs (bread, water, electricity, fuel, cereals, public transport and I could go on, but like anybody else, I forgot yesterdays prices, and try to keep my nose above water level).

Many of those price increases could have been prevented, if earlier governments and ministers of finance, such as Netanyahu had listened to the professional advices given him by experts by investing in the infrastructure, but no, they preferred to make it easier on the owners of the infrastructural monopolies, increasing their profits. I know we can not compete in cheap labor, industries based on cheap workers are impossible to thrive in Israel, even in the agricultural and horticultural sector, we have to realize that nobody is paying in order to keep the farmer happy, everyone in the Global village wants the best quality of products at the cheapest price, facts of life.
What we need, and indeed succeed already in many aspects, is to go after high-tech projects, even if that means, selling them eventually to other countries in order to produce those Israeli inventions elsewhere, as our strength lays in technology, not in cheap labor. Taxing the poor more will lead to disaster, as they have no reserve left, they can not afford another blow, they are already milked dry.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

EU started a total blockade of the European mini state "Arabstan"

EU started a total blockade of the European mini state "Arabstan".

By David Verveer

Our correspondent in Roermond, the Netherlands, reporting from the eastern bank of the river Meuse, which, as we reported several days back, suffers from continues bombardments by Arabstani terrorists, shooting on Roermond's civilian neighborhoods with rockets and missiles.

The security council of the EU issued an ultimatum to the leaders of Arabstan (former Ravenstein, a mini state wedged between Holland and Belgium, populated by Islam workers, a country that gained independence several years back). The EU ultimatum threatens to close all the borders into and from Arabstan, including blocking local citizens to go to their work in the surrounding countries (the main source of income of the mini state), provided the bombardment is not stopped immediately. The lame excuse that has been provided by Arabstani leaders, claiming that those rockets are fired by terrorists, is not acceptable, as according international law, the government is responsible to prevent terrorism.

As from last Monday 4 o'clock in the morning, the blockade became reality, and 2 million workers and their families are in actual fact imprisoned in a huge open prison or concentration camp. In fact, the smuggling activities organized by drug rings, will now provide the urgent needs of the civilian population (those smugglers have built a illegal tunnel complex, through which merchandise is delivered, and sold at inflated prices to the local citizens.
The EU allows Red Cross supplies for human assistance, and convoys of trucks, ships and trains daily enter Arabstan, after being searched for illegal merchandise.

The UN Security Council has ordered to investigate if this blockade is legal or should be considered a crime to humanity. The Libyan representative proposes a boycott on all products coming from the EU, until the blockade will be cancelled.
Sudan has intended to send volunteers to help defending the borders of Arabstan.

In the mean time, the bombardment on Roermond continues, schools are closed and families with children are advised to stay with friends outside the war zone.
The Pope requested restrain from both sides, however the Turkish President Erdogan told his hosts on a state visit to Venezuela, that the Muslim fighters of Arabstan are in their moral rights to fight for their religious freedom, and that according Muslim religion, it is the duty of these fighters to defend the Quran and Islam.

Geert Wilders, the anti Islam Politian in the Netherlands tells the Dutch population, that he had warned them, but they would not listen.

The blockade does not include the continues supply of electricity, gas, fuel, and water from the neighboring countries, alternative supply routes were found, when a rocket landed on the main electricity transformation station near Roermond, and damaged the ordinary supply lines of electricity to the capital city Islamabad (former city of Maaseik).

A NATO general told the press that in the mean time, NATO does not consider invading Arabstan, due to the fact that Arabstan has no regular army, and NATO soldiers do not fight civilians (innocent or not).

Pleasure boats filled with Humanist Organizations sailed from Luxemburg in the direction of Islamabad, to protest the blockade, on board known celebrities such as former Dutch Premier van Agt, the peace Nobel laureate Bishop Metutu and Crown prince Albert of Belgium. However, the former actress Brigitte Bardot cancelled her participation when she found out that this expedition did not include animal rights.
It is not yet clear if the navy will allow them to enter Islamabad port.

The Government of Arabstan announced that the Napoleonic laws will be replaced by the Islamic Laws in the country, which includes also capital punishment.
The Euro Song Festival has accepted Arabstan as full member, and hopes to see Arabstani participation in the next Euro Song Festival.

Friday, November 6, 2009

The recipe book on how you are allowed to fight terrorism

By David Verveer

There is an ancient joke about the Jew (the reason why the story is about a Jew and not a Gentile, is based on advanced psychiatry, and will not be discussed in this non scientific paper). This Jew was enlisted in the army, during war time, and send out with a patrol to face the enemy. Suddenly an enemy tank started to shoot towards our hero, and only pure simple luck saved him from being killed, or wounded. Our hero, let us name him in order to make the story more comprehensible, Joachim Nathaniel Cohn (JNC) jumped up, ran towards the enemy tank shouting loudly, are you bloody blind, be carefully, you could have hurt us!

And this is precisely the message of the Goldstone report (that Mr. Goldstone happens to be Jewish is of no importance and anybody who might think that I mention this on purpose is an anti-Semite, as you would not have mentioned his religion if he would have been a Mormon, you would have thought religion is irrelevant, don't you think?

Having studied the 500 page Goldstone report, I will now summarize how our friend Goldstone advises countries which are attacked by terrorist should react. First of all, if the enemy (I think enemy sounds discriminating, we should read instead "freedom fighters" bombard your tows with missiles, don't be childish, how much damage does such primitive rocket, don't react, if you don't answer, soon they will get fed up and stop with this annoyance.

However, if you decide that you have to show some way of reprisal (very primitive, not the way civilized people behave) do respond with shooting into the sea (be careful that nobody is there to get hurt), and please put some noise reducer on your cannons, as the local population might be resting, and remember, children and older people, women, students, policemen should b warned before you shoot, in order to prevent possible traumas and damage.

You have to be fair, if there is a number of innocent freedom fighters killed due to your firing, remember to let them kill the same number of soldiers on your side, a non even number of killings will bring you automatically into court for crimes to humanity.

If your troupes get shot upon, you have to verify if from the direction of the shoting (let us say, in an area of 2 square Kilometer) there are no innocent civilians, don't just shoot back, you might damage buildings and people.

Using weapons and bombs which might hurt or wound people is absolutely forbidden.

Shooting back is allowed only after you absolutely verified if the shooting was intentional, if the shooters are licensed freedom fighters, and if they are alone and not near civilians or UN employees.

Don't shoot on ambulances, even not if you are fired upon, from the ambulance, it might be that the shooter suffers a mental shock, and mentally ill shooters are not responsible for their deeds.
And remember, the settlers are occupying illegally Arab lands, and those brave freedom fighters try to liberate occupied territory, and don't confuse this rapport with irrelevant facts, don't you realize how much oil those Arabs produce?

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Arabstan (the former territory of Ravenstein)

Arabstan (the former territory of Ravenstein), Islamic jewel in Western Europe

By David Verveer

Arabstan, a fictional mini state situated between Holland and Belgium, which gained independence only several years back and is populated by mainly Islamic workers, and run by a Democratic chosen Islamic coalition of immigrants coming from Arabic countries, who came to Western Europe in a giant Islamic wave of labor forces, and during the second Lebanese war (between Lebanon and Israel) fought for independence and self government, on a small area that is wedged between the two countries.

Ravenstein (as the territory was called before the war of independence) was an independent country, which was illegally conquered by the Dutch after the battle of Waterloo, but which in matter of fact, belonged to the Belgium royal family (see also my former writings on the Ravenstein beauties and Ravenstein revisited).

The region is strategically situated between the giant industrial regions of the German Ruhr, the Dutch Rotterdam and Belgium Antwerp ports, the mines in Belgium's Brabant and Limburg provinces, and is an ideal place to house Islamic labor forces, which enables them to live their own life stile, live under their own religious laws, without aggravating their neighbors with their behaviour.

On it self, the creation of this kind of self governing Bantustan appeared to have solved most of the discrimination in daily live, and if not the threats of terrorism imported by Islamic world terrorist organizations, nearly everybody would be happy with this arrangement. Even the increased smuggling trade of drugs, run by drug lords from the territory, is a cheap price to pay in order to gain a quiet operational environment.

The capital city Maaseik (now renamed Islamabad), a river port on the river Meuse, has grown to a metropolis of 2 million inhabitants, with huge new modern styled neighborhoods, as Arabstan is prospering from its labor force, and even though the income taxes are much lower than those of the neighboring countries, it provides a steady income for the young state.

I know, it sounds all a little bid too perfect, and indeed, according the agreement of the EU, the state of Arabstan has to remain demilitarized and is not allowed to have a standing army and / or weapons, besides of course those needed by the local police. Funny anough the border areas are not save, due to the firing of rockets on the neighboring Dutch town of Roermond on the other bank of the river Meuse (Maas). The official government of Arabstan denies their part in this bombardment, and blames it on the smuggling terrorists. The Dutch government did not reply by shooting back, but pressure on the government is very strong, and we imagine that a punitive military strike by the Dutch is evident, as no civilized country will allow their citizens to be bombarded unpunished. The United Nations assembly requested both sides to solve the dispute in a peaceful manner; the security council demanded that Holland stops interfering with the free trade of the sovereign nation of Arabstan.

Lately the smugglers and terrorist organizations started in arming secretly the country, by smuggling in small and medium arms and munitions. This is done by hiding those goods in the trucks and cargo trains, trading and passing through the territory. The border control and screening of the merchandise is not very effective.

But now they discovered a new way of smuggling weapons, by way of shipping it by river. The united German / Dutch and Belgium custom police started intercepting those cargo ships, and after checking their loads, they are allowed to continue their trip, but last week, a huge river boat "Franklin" (under the flag of Liechtenstein) was boarded by the custom police, when nearing the port of Islamabad (Maaseik), and it appeared to carry a huge load of heavy artillery and other military merchandise. Syria has turned to the Security Council of the UN excusing Holland of piracy in International waterways.

The majority of members in the Security Council are likely to vote against the piracy actions of Holland, and only a veto from the USA can save Holland from being judged by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

It is clear for anybody with a little sense of human rights, that the shameful behaviour of the Dutch and their obvious show of un-fair play that the Dutch will always remain the same brutal criminals and pirates that roamed the oceans and colonized and killed the local natives. The head of a Ghana's prince who was beheaded by the Dutch Colonial Forces, (headed by General Jan Verveer*) has only now sent back for burial in his native land. How disgustingly cruel are those Dutch?

* General Verveer is not related to the writer of this post.

Monday, November 2, 2009

wat bedoelen ze met extreem rechts?

Wat bedoelen ze met extreem rechts?

Door David Verveer

Ik leef al meer dan 50 jaar buiten Nederland, en nu met de Internet lees ik dagelijks ook de Nederlandse kranten, en meeste artikelen en onderwerpen zijn ongeveer zo als mijn plaatselijke berichtgeving, met interessante artikelen zoals bijvoorbeeld, Jantje Klaassen heeft zijn vrouw vermoord met klappen, omdat ze hem niet meer in bed wou hebben want hij snork in zijn slaap. Op zich zelf, een hartstikke interessante mededeling, die, als je de namen veranderd, ook hier kan gebeuren, en hier vragen ze de buren of ze iets aan hem hadden gemerkt, met antwoorden zoals, altijd een nette jongen, was een beetje driftig, maar nooit op Sabbat, nee hoor, heel netjes, en zijn vrouw had vele vriendjes over de vloer, als hij op werk was, maar ze hadden net een nieuwe auto gekocht, waar kwam dat vandaan, van zijn baantje bij de bus compagnie?

Maar nu schrijven ze bij jullie over die meneer Wilders, die volgens een onderzoek extreem rechts is, en dat begrijp ik niet, in mijn tijd was de KVP rechts, en de CHU met die Freule van Utenwaall tot Stoetwegen, of zo iets, uitersts rechts, en de PvdA links en de communisten extreem links, maar dat is allemaal veranderd, de PvdA vertegenwoordigd niet meer de werkers, is extreem pro Palestijn, terwijl de Volkskrant dat een Katholiek dagblad was, meer links is dan het Parool. Volgens wat ik heb gelezen is Wilders pro Israƫl en anti Islam, en dan vraag ik me af, of de politieke bestaan omgebouwd is en dat de aannemer de blauwdrukken heeft omgedraaid?

Dr. Willem Drees was links en rood, en bijzonder geliefd bij het gewone volk, is dat nu veranderd?
Het koningshuis met Koningin Juliana was zeer populair, desondanks Prins Bernhard, die niemand vertrouwde. Zijn de Hollanders veranderd?
Vroeger zei men soms, die klere Jood, maar dat was niet netjes en mocht niet, tegenwoordig schreeuwen ze, Hamas, hamas, Joden aan het gas, en dat word niet gestraft, zelfs kamerleden doen daar aan mee.

Mijn vraag is, zijn alle echte linkse mensen bij de PvdA uitgestorven en de echte rechtse aristrocatie CHU geimmigreerd? Wie is wie en waarom is zwart nu op eens wit?