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An article stated that two men with a firearm and a hammer had robbed a jeweler in Dordrecht. According to the author, an employee confronted them, narrowly escaped a blow to the head from the hammer, and chased the men out of the store without any loot. The author praised the employee for his bravery. https://t.co/xdK7OAKUpg #Dordrecht #overval #helden (translated)

Faces of War remembered the Bücherl family from Arnstein in the Upper Palatinate, who lost three sons at the Eastern Front. Hans fell in December 1942, his brother Zacharias on October 10, 1944, and Josef a few weeks later, on October 28, 1944. Hans was 17, Zacharias 18, and Josef 24 years old. In an excerpt of a poem, the account described the consecutive losses as further wounds and as sacrifices that had to be borne. With the hashtags #NeverAgainWar and #WeWillNotForget, he commemorated the brothers. #NieWiederKrieg #WirVergessenNicht #NieWiederKrieg #WirVergessenNicht #Opfer (translated)

The author called on Vienna to remember Tiananmen and proposed a permanent memorial at Heldenplatz for the victims of the 4 June 1989 crackdown and people in China who continued to stand for freedom, democracy and human rights. https://t.co/vnWa7ygMcH #Tiananmen #Menschenrechte #Demokratie #AT #CN

The author described a September 11 memorial at Heldenplatz in Vienna and linked it to a presidential pledge for Austria in 2028. They wrote that terrorists had killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, and characterized the attack as an assault on freedom, democracy and the Western world. https://t.co/pevoXAYJwW #911Memorial #Austria2028 #Freedom #US #AT

Sociologists Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson describe in their book "Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh" (1998) how closely Nike's rise is linked to the "triumph of individualism" or the ancient adoration of heroes (Greek goddess of sports). #Nike #KylianMbappé #Sportmarketing (translated)

Beach Roy wrote that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to UN human rights chief and former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay. He viewed the award as a clear signal against Donald Trump, praised the Norwegians, and said he did not expect them to dare to do this. He also spoke coarsely about Trump. https://t.co/X12Y39ldUy #Nobelprijs #Mensrechten #Politiek (translated)

Bernd Kaiser criticized BMW for canceling the leasing contract for the 7-series company car of the newly elected President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, according to his representation. He accused the company of making a political statement while it is cutting 8,000 jobs worldwide and offering severance packages to almost 40,000 employees in Germany. Kaiser contrasted the decision with the BMW management's statements in the FAZ, claiming that certain parties are "poison for the economic location." He wrote that the company should focus more on technological innovations and sales, and he held the perceived misallocation of priorities partly responsible for the decline of the German location. #BMW #Dienstwagen https://t.co/JhQgq0WEGr #BMW #Autoindustrie #Wirtschaft (translated)

The author pledged to work, as Federal President, to establish a monument to Theodor Herzl at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. They described Herzl as a Viennese figure, a European visionary and the founder of political Zionism, and said Vienna should honour his historic role. https://t.co/5vobJmEFJX #Herzl #Zionism #Vienna #AT #IL

This was a colossal failure of the State of Israel, which was founded to defend the Jews in our country. Yet in those minutes, young men and women from all over Israel came to fight, to protect, and to save lives. A generation of heroes emerged, and we owe it to them to rebuild our country stronger and prove ourselves worthy of the sacrifice. Opposition politician Naftali Bennett emphasized in Re'im the failure of the state, but praised the will to survive of the people: "This was a colossal failure of the State of Israel, which was founded to defend the Jews in our country. Yet in those minutes, young men and women from all over Israel came to fight, to protect, and to save lives. A generation of heroes emerged, and we owe it to them to rebuild our country stronger and prove ourselves worthy of the sacrifice." #HamasÜberfall #Gedenken #Israel (translated)

The author of the post announced that as the future president of Austria, he will advocate for a dignified monument for Jan III Sobieski in Vienna's Heldenplatz. He wrote that in 1683, Sobieski led Polish forces to the relief of Vienna and played a decisive role. https://t.co/0nzR0Zgq3C #JanIIISobieski #Wiedeń #Historia #PL #AT (translated)

The author wrote that he would commit, in his capacity as the Federal President of Austria, to honor Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu with a magnificent monument in the center of Vienna. He described Skënderbeu as a hero of Albania and a symbol of freedom. https://t.co/mtfkmoCHgN #Skënderbeu #Austria #Monumenti #AL #AT #EU (translated)

The author said they would establish a monument to Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. They wrote that Mexico, under Cárdenas, had stood up for Austria when it lost its independence through Hitler’s Anschluss in March 1938, and said Mexico had formally protested. https://t.co/xoeKAuI1Ux #Monumento #Solidaridad #Historia #AT #MX

Hasnain Kazim remembered the third anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. At that time, he arrived by bicycle in Heidelberg and heard discussions about the attack in the marketplace. The terror had strengthened his resolve to stand against extremism. He described the attack as the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Kazim wrote that religiously justified restrictions and violence had occupied him since childhood. He had experienced, among other things, the outrage over a joke by Rudi Carrell about Khomeini, the persecution of Salman Rushdie, and the deaths of more than a dozen acquaintances, friends, and colleagues at the hands of Islamist extremists. He had also found statements that praised Hitler or Osama bin Laden to be profoundly unbearable. Since October 7, 2023, he has observed that Hamas terrorists are celebrated in Germany as well. In Berlin-Neukölln, people distributed candies after the massacre. Kazim also criticized the fact that some young people appeared with keffiyehs and pro-Palestinian slogans without understanding their political and historical significance. He wrote that Hamas fighters and bin Laden are portrayed on TikTok as representatives of the oppressed or as opponents of capitalism. At the same time, Kazim warned of extremists demanding mass "remigration" and threatening people who appeared foreign or Muslim to them. He accused the political center of not rejecting Islamism and the glorification of terror decisively enough and of ceding the political space to others. He did not want to live in a society where extremists set the tone, nor in one where Sharia law prevailed and religious authorities dictated people's lives. Kazim also referred to the vulnerability of people who could be identified as Jewish, as well as the need for protection for restaurants, kindergartens, schools, places of worship, and diplomatic missions. This was neither resistance nor criticism of the Israeli government, he wrote. In conclusion, he commemorated the victims of October 7, wished healing and peace for the injured, and called for the defeat of the terrorists. #Terrorismus #Extremismus #Frieden (translated)

The debate in Israel revolves around the responsibility for the failed attack on FlyDubai flight, which revealed weaknesses in the country's security architecture, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to exploit the passengers' heroics for his campaign. #FlyDubai #Sicherheit #Netanyahu (translated)