Joshua Daniels
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Joshua Daniels
@danz04
fair weather cyclist, fair weather runner, if it's sports I can probably talk about it, if it's not it's going to be a lottery
Beigetreten Ocak 2009
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@HansNiesund @baum_p Click on to each of those names and you can see none of them have an origin in the area
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@baum_p FACT
Any post starting with "FACT" is sure to be bullshit, as it is in this case. forebears.io/palestine/surn…
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FACTS
There is not one Palestinian family name that can trace its roots back to the geographical area the Palestinians claim as their indigenous homeland
ALL Palestinian family names derive their roots from surrounding countries verifying the fact that Palestinians are not indigenous to the land they claim
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@LifeInKilburn @metpoliceuk Am I not allowed to express a possible reason? Banks and arms dealers have been daubed in red paint. IOF soldiers freely waltz back to the UK after slaughtering babies. Ergo red paint.
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Sad to report the the paint splashing gang is back in NW6, Lowfield Road @metpoliceuk . They operated for a while in Maygrove Road and Iverson Road.




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@danz04 @ArtetaEra Good luck with that. One thing our owners have done well is buy and sell
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@ApeIsLive Anything less than £2m and they have been spending too much money on smashed avo brunches and fancy coffees
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@andy_cov93 @KantPredict Nah mate that's less than £200 a litre now, remember it's a motorway service station
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@KantPredict “Get your diesel right now less than £2 a litre!!!”
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@adamtalksgolf @ChampionsTour @PGATOUR @TheMasters Haven't looked at the leaderboard for his back 9 have you
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I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones:
1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack.
2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.
Optimist.@Optimist_Gaza
@EylonALevy @ShMMor @eylontherecord Can you list just five of such laws invented by Israel's critics?
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Remember the international break narrative about Arsenal 100% faking injuries?
"Arsenal are cheaters, there needs to be a new rule."
"I bet they'll all be back for Arsenal's next game."
🇳🇴 Odegaard: missed the final vs Man City
🇧🇪 Trossard: missed Man City & Southampton
🇪🇨 Hincapie: missed Southampton, maybe Sporting
🏴 Saka - missed Southampton and now Sporting
🏴 Eze: missed City, Southampton, maybe Sporting
🇳🇱 Timber - missed City, Southampton, now Sporting
It's almost as if Arsenal players ACTUALLY had injuries? 😳
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Whose Plan Was It, Exactly?
The other day I was scrolling my phone, half paying attention, half pretending I wasn’t doomscrolling like the rest of humanity, when I saw it again.
“The plan was always a two-state solution.”
I actually stopped. Not because it was new. Because it wasn’t.
It’s one of those lines people say with such confidence, you almost assume you missed a meeting. Like somewhere, at some point, there was a calm, reasonable discussion where everyone nodded and said, “Yes, two states, that’s the plan,” and then history just… malfunctioned.
Always.
Such a confident word. It sounds ancient. Inevitable. Almost biblical, like it was handed down somewhere between Sinai and a college protest sign. Like everyone agreed. Like history was one big group chat and we all just missed the memo.
But here’s the question nobody asks.
Whose plan?
Because history is not a group project where everyone showed up, nodded politely, and signed the same document. History is messy. Loud. Violent. Full of people who absolutely did not agree. So when someone says “always,” what they usually mean is, “I’m about to skip the uncomfortable parts.”
Let’s not skip. Let’s rewind.
Before the UN. Before Israel. Before the word “occupation” became a slogan instead of a definition, go back to the Ottoman Empire. There was no Palestinian state. No Arab state called Palestine. No national movement built around Palestinian identity the way we understand it today. Just land. Provinces. Districts. Bureaucratic lines drawn by an empire that was slowly collapsing under its own weight.
And Jews were still there. Not arriving for the first time. Not “colonizing.” Just… there. In Jerusalem. In Safed. In Hebron. In Tiberias. Praying the same prayers, facing the same direction, saying “next year in Jerusalem” like a broken record the world kept trying to scratch. That matters, because it destroys the idea that Jews “showed up” one day. We didn’t show up. We stayed. And some came back. Big difference.
Then the Ottoman Empire falls after World War I, and suddenly the land becomes a question. Not a country. A question. And the British, in their infinite wisdom and very limited foresight, step in to answer it. Which is usually where things start going wrong in the Middle East.
This is where the myth begins to crack. The idea of partition, two states side by side, sounds clean and reasonable, like a real estate deal. You take this half, I’ll take that half, we’ll argue about water rights like civilized people. But that was never the shared vision. It was a proposal from one side to solve a conflict, and it required something very simple. Both sides saying yes. That’s the part people leave out.
Because one side did say yes. And the other side didn’t.
In 1937, the Peel Commission offered the first real partition. Jewish leadership said yes. Not because they loved the borders. They didn’t. Not because it was fair. It wasn’t. But because it was something. A foothold. A chance. A beginning. In Hebrew we call that being pragmatic. Or, depending on the day, desperate.
The Arab leadership said no. Not “let’s improve it.” Not “we want more.” Just no. And not quietly. Violently. Because the issue wasn’t the size of the Jewish state. It was the existence of one.
Fast forward to 1947. The United Nations proposes another partition. Another chance at two states. Again, Jews say yes. Again, Arabs say no. And then they say something louder. War.
Five armies invade. Not to negotiate borders. Not to build a Palestinian state next to Israel. To erase Israel entirely. That’s not a failed two-state solution. That’s a rejected one.
And this is where the conversation usually gets uncomfortable. Because people want this to be about land. Borders. Maps. Lines on paper. But it wasn’t. It was about something much deeper. Identity. Legitimacy. The idea of a Jewish state in any form.
And that rejection didn’t develop in isolation. In the 1930s and 40s, Nazi ideology didn’t stay in Europe. It traveled. It was translated into Arabic, broadcast on radio, absorbed into political and religious discourse. The Mufti of Jerusalem didn’t just oppose Zionism. He met with Hitler. He collaborated. That’s not a footnote. That’s context.
After World War II, a new influence enters the room. The Soviets. They take the language of anti-colonialism and reshape the narrative. Suddenly Jews, the most historically displaced people on earth, become “settler-colonialists” in their own ancestral homeland. It’s an impressive trick. Dark, but impressive. Flip the story. Invert reality. Turn survival into oppression. And now rejecting a Jewish state isn’t hatred. It’s justice. At least, that’s how it’s sold.
But underneath the slogans, the pattern doesn’t change. From the 1930s to today, the consistent position from Arab leadership was not “we want two states.” It was “we don’t want a Jewish one.”
You don’t have to take my word for it. In 1967, after another war, the Arab League met in Khartoum and issued what became known as the “Three No’s”: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel.
Not complicated. Not nuanced. Just no.
And here’s a part that almost never gets mentioned. From 1948 to 1967, Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan controlled the West Bank. There was no Israeli occupation. So where was the Palestinian state? Why wasn’t it created then?
Because the goal wasn’t a state next to Israel. It was a region without Israel. That’s the fine print people skip, and like anything in the fine print, it changes everything when you actually read it.
Which brings us back to today. “Two-state solution” is said like a moral credential, like if you say it, you’re one of the reasonable ones. But history tells a different story. For Jews, two states was always a compromise. For Arab leadership, it was always a concession too far. Not because of where the lines were drawn, but because of what the lines represented. A Jewish state.
Now here’s the part I don’t want to lose. This isn’t about saying peace is impossible. It’s not. Jews have said yes before. To bad deals. To smaller borders. To imperfect realities. Because at the core of Zionism is something very simple. Let us live. Let us be a people, in our land, safely, without asking permission.
And every time that collided with a simple response, the answer was no. Not a better offer. Not a counterproposal. Just no.
So when someone says, “the plan was always two states,” you don’t have to get angry. You don’t even have to argue. You can just pause, smile a little, and ask the question they skipped.
Whose plan?
Because history isn’t what people say. It’s what people agreed to. And what they rejected. One side said yes, over and over again. The other side said no, over and over again.
Peace was offered repeatedly. It just wasn’t accepted.
And until that changes, this isn’t a peace process that failed.
It’s an idea that was never accepted.
If anyone knows how to live in peace with others, it’s the Jews. We’ve been doing it, or at least trying to, for over 3,000 years.
And we’re still trying.

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@kelvmackenzie They knew what they were signing up for! My experience is most Doctors are all about the money and have the God complex! I also think that they should all be contracted to the NHS for at least 10 years before the head off to Australia!!
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About time to. Starmer has told doctors planning their 15th strike, starting April 7, that unless they call it off he will scrap the planned 4,000 extra speciality posts. Under the 7.1% offer average earnings for experienced resident doctors will rise to £100K and juniors, fresh out of medical school, will earn £52K.
These doctors have the attitude of train drivers in white costs and should be treated with the same contempt.
Everybody ( and I mean everybody) has become worse off since the 2008 banking collapse. NHS doctors are not a special case.
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@israel_ajoje I enjoyed learning that despite playing every game at CB Laurent Blanc was a striker
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This will absolutely shock you.
Argentina's goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea had a ritual before every penalty shootout. He would urinate on the grass, right in front of everyone, not in the tunnel or in a bottle.
His reasoning was simple: the rules say you cannot leave the field until the match is over, so he did what he had to do. He saved penalty after penalty across back to back World Cups and became one of the most clutch goalkeepers of his generation.
Nobody questioned it. And that tells you everything about how far footballers will go when they believe something is working.
Here are seven of the rarest, strangest, and most fascinating facts about kits, jerseys, and the superstitions that surround them.
1. Pelé's lucky shirt was a lie
During a dip in form, Pelé convinced himself the problem was a "lucky" jersey he had given away to a fan, and he asked a friend to track it down. The friend could not find the original, so he quietly handed Pelé a completely different shirt from a previous game and said absolutely nothing.
Pelé believed it was the one he had been looking for; his form immediately returned, and he never found out the truth. The shirt was wrong but the belief was aneough.
2. John Terry had fifty pre-match rituals and never missed a single one
I said fifty, not five. Terry admitted to listening to the same Usher CD on the drive to every game, parking in the exact same spot at the stadium, sitting in the same seat on the team bus, and taping his socks exactly three times before kick off.
He also wore the same pair of shin pads for ten consecutive seasons and reportedly still put on his full kit at home on days he was suspended and could not play, simply because the routine was the routine and breaking it was never an option he was willing to consider. Shocking. Right?
3. Jack Grealish wore the same boots from March all the way to Wembley
Grealish returned from a three month injury layoff in March 2019 and immediately started scoring and assisting in a brand new pair of boots, declared them lucky, and refused to change them for a single game after that.
He wore the exact same pair through the entire Championship run-in and all the way to the playoff final at Wembley, where Aston Villa beat Derby County 2-1 to win promotion back to the Premier League.
He retired the boots after the final whistle and not a moment before.
4. Cameroon wore sleeveless jerseys to a tournament, won the tournament but got punished for it
In 2002, Cameroon showed up to the Africa Cup of Nations in sleeveless jerseys as a deliberate statement against convention, and rather than going out early, they went ahead and won the entire tournament in the illegal kit.
FIFA then banned the shirts ahead of the World Cup later that same year, ruling they violated regulations on kit design. So Cameroon lifted the trophy in jerseys that were technically not allowed, and were punished for it only after the fact. You genuinely could not write it.
5. France won the 1998 World Cup with Gloria Gaynor and a kissed bald head
On the road to winning their first World Cup, the entire French squad sat in exactly the same seats on the team bus before every single game without exception, and in the dressing room they played Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" as a collective ritual before walking out.
Before each match, striker Laurent Blanc would walk across to goalkeeper Fabien Barthez and kiss his shaved head, every single time, without fail.
They won every game they played in that tournament and nobody suggested changing a single part of the routine because when something is not broken at a World Cup, you do not fix it.
6. A France manager was picking his national team squads using astrology
Raymond Domenech, who managed the French national team from 2004 to 2010, publicly admitted that astrology was one of his parameters in decision making and openly stated his suspicion of Leo players in defensive positions.
He was also widely reported to have a problem with Scorpios in his squad, and Robert Pires, who was one of the finest French players of that generation, effectively saw his international career end under Domenech's management.
Domenech denied that astrology was the direct reason for any specific selection, but he never denied using it as a tool, which is arguably worse. He never won a trophy as a manager, and the stars, apparently, did not align for him.
Which of these facts did you enjoy? Let me know in the comments section.
My name is Ajoje and I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I talk about the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow me if you want to read more posts like this.

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@OC Left it under my pillow and some thieving fairy stole it and assumed if she left me a £1 coin for it I'd be happy.
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Net spend of £93m over the last 5 years. How is this even possible anymore. This is genuinely just the FA trying to protect their big 6. Newcastle are suffering the exact same thing.
Only reason is to protect their big “sky 6” load of bollocks. You can’t compete anymore
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