The Netherlands’ government moves further towards supporting Israel
In an advanced draft for a coalition agreement between four right-wing Dutch political factions, the partners agreed to look for the “appropriate time” for moving the embassy of the Netherlands to Jerusalem.
The draft agreement published Thursday morning follows the November general elections in the Netherlands, in which the pro-Israel, far-right Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders received the highest share of the vote with 37 seats out of 150 in the Dutch lower house.
The draft states that research will be conducted into “the appropriate time in which the move of the embassy to Jerusalem can occur.”
If the Netherlands does follow through, it will be the sixth country to open an embassy in Jerusalem, following Papua New Guinea, Kosovo, Honduras, Guatemala and the US.
This was started by Trump, of course, when he announced such a move for the US.
There’s also this:
One clause on immigration in the draft agreement states that the Holocaust will be included in the integration exam, which anyone seeking Dutch citizenship needs to pass.
Another said Dutch asylum and immigration protocols would be reviewed. “Concrete steps will be taken towards the strictest ever entry rules for asylum and the most comprehensive ever package to control migration,” the agreement said.
Interesting. Elections have consequences.
NOTE: If I were to ask people, “What do The Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Kosovo, Honduras, Guatemala, and the US have in common?” I doubt whether anyone but those reading this post could answer the question.
Wow, Kosovo too? A Moslem country with an embassy in Jerusalem! Will Albania be next?
Pretty sure that Papua New Guinea is the icing on the cake, though….
(Wasn’t a Biden eaten there?)
Dunno about Bidens. Maybe you’re thinking of Rockefellers? Michael Rockefeller went missing and maybe eaten in New Guinea, but I guess he was probably a Rockefeller Republican. I don’t know of any Democrats eaten by cannibals, outside of the five that Alferd Packer ate in Colorado.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0uhaSgBF2k
Oh most definitely a Rockefeller.
(Maybe that’s where Decent Joe got his inspiration…)
Can’t imagine he was all that tasty, mind you—Americans…and an anthropologist, to boot—but ye’ never know…. Probably would depend on the recipe…
(Certainly, the family does seem to have a penchant for kicking the bucket in rather unconventional situations…
Alas, poor Happy…)
Love the question about the Holocaust. Any answer denying it should be an automatic disqualification.
Perhaps The Netherlands is returning to its place in Western Civilization.
There’s a chance France might be next.
No chance for the UK.
Forget about Sweden.
The Netherlands would benefit from a policy destination delineated below. A Fortuyn ministry should be working to get them there.
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Refugees as a rule should be handled by inter-governmental agencies and by the overseas development and relief apparat of the more affluent countries. You house them in camps proximate to their country of origin with a view to their eventual repatriation. Affluent countries should indemnify poor countries playing host to refugees (w or w/o camps therein). Only in odd circumstances (e.g. ‘captive nations’ situations) do you resettle them. A selection of troubled countries overseas should be put under multi-party trusteeships.
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People applying for asylum in any given country should (with their dependents) be jailed immediately and remain in jail until such time as their claim is fully adjudicated. If the various tribunals rule in their favor, you can indemnify them according to a standard rate. Invariably, the first question they should have to answer correctly is why they are applying in your country and not in a place more proximate to their country of origin. If they do not answer it correctly, they should be deported to a country proximate to their country of origin. Those granted asylum should receive temporary residency status reviewable quadrennially if not more often than that.
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Anyone reasonably suspected of being an illegal alien should be jailed immediately. You can indemnify them later if the arresting officer is proven to be wrong. Illegal aliens are sentenced to a term in prison which is a function of their time in the country illegally, denied parole, deported immediately upon released, and debarred from entry for any reason for a term of years.
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Temporary residency visas are properly limited to the accredited employees of foreign governments, to authentic refugees, to students, to teachers, and to dependents of the foregoing.
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Only those who are citizens, settlers, or temporary residents should be permitted to work for pay in any country. The only exceptions should be emergency service personnel invited by government agencies and touring performers and lecturers.
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In any locus, the civil status of a child born therein should be derived from that of the mother unless they are of legitimate birth and their father has a preferred status (in which case their status should be derived from his). As a rule, you should inherit the parental status. Illegal aliens beget illegal aliens. Sojourners beget sojourners. Temporary residents beget temporary residents. Citizens beget citizens. Naturalization should require, at a minimum, that you have spent the majority of your natural life as a lawful, palpable, and productive resident of the country you are in.
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Access to common provision should commonly (not invariably) require buy-in. The amount of buy-in required and how it is measured will vary from program to program. Enhanced quantities of buy-in should be required of foreign residents. It should take about 48 quarters of paid labor (pro-rating periods of p/t labor) for a foreigner (and his dependents) to be regarded as the equivalent of a native-born citizen in regard to eligibility for common provision.
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Countries who arrange common provision prudently do not subsidize the mundane expenditures of client populations except in odd situations. No public housing, no food stamps, no breaks on your utility bills, and no price controls bar on the services of natural monopolies. You subsidize medical care, l/t care, schooling, legal services (on the margins), and shipping-and-transportation (on the margins).
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Well-ordered countries employ in ample quantities, police, prosecutors, penal courts, and public defenders. Incarceration or corporal punishment is invariably the primary penalty for all penal code offenses, with fines, forfeitures, and restitution supplementary penalties. Offenders under 25 are punished with a mix of probation and incarceration in lieu of incarceration alone. The incarcerated are placed with their own age segment. Foreigners accused of offenses more severe than petty misdemeanors are placed in preventive detention; you can indemnify them later if their eventual sentence is less than their time in detention or their case is not processed. Foreigners convicted serve clipped sentences, are not eligible for parole, and are deported upon release with their right of domicile suspended for a term of years; persons released who are under 21 may be spared deportation, but time to their suspension will be added later should they return to prison.
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Well-ordered countries will reserve to citizens certain public-sector positions, private sector positions requiring a security clearance, and private sector positions requiring an occupational license. That aside, recruitment and promotion in public sector positions and private natural monopolies is properly regulated by written examinations supplemented with physical fitness tests in some circumstances. All such examinations (and occupational licensing examinations as well) are given in the official language. In the private sector, catch as catch can is properly the order of the day bar where hiring is regulated by collective bargaining agreements.
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Public sector agencies and corporations, natural monopolies, medical service providers, and those who provide services to travelers in exigent circumstances have a custom defined by law. All other producers set their own custom.
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If the share of temporary residents in your population exceeds 0.5%, you should declare a moratorium on the issuance of educational visas (for students, teachers, and their dependents).
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Annual issuance of settler’s visas should not exceed 0.125% of your extant population. All of those over 14 issued such a visa should be required to first pass a proficiency test in the local language (written and oral).
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IIRC, the Kosovars credit the US with keeping them alive and independent following Yugoslavia’s break-up. Most recently, US diplomats helped Kosovo and Serbia with negotiations over the shared border between the two countries. Most famously, this resulted in a shared man-made reservoir being named “Lake Trump”. It was a joking suggestion by the American team when the two sides couldn’t agree what to call it, and both sides promptly accepted it (to the surprise of the Americans).
Kosovo’s decision to move it’s embassy was probably due to the debt they feel toward the US.
The Netherlands is a small country geographically. But it’s the second-highest exporter of food (measured in monetary value) in the world. So this is a country with some pull. I’m glad to hear that the Dutch are doing this. The fact that it probably pisses off their neighbors in Brussels is a bonus
They ( the Left) will never see what’s coming!
Maybe the Dutch remember Anne Frank.
The election results probably reflect their experience with Muslim Immigrants.
I think it’s interesting that Geert Wilders’ party is “far-right” when usually “far-right” in Europe does not indicate support for Israel. I wonder if they have a lot of infighting with other right-wing nationalists over that issue?