Observations, articles, opinions etc. in Dutch and English. The author, Bert de Bruin (Yonathan Dror Bar-On), is a Dutch-Jewish historian, who has specialized in modern Jewish history and in the history of the Middle East, and who in 1995 emigrated from the Netherlands to Israel. In July 2008 his first book, Israel en ik - Vijftien bekende Nederlanders over hun verhouding met een zestigjarige (Israel and I - Fifteen well-known Dutchmen and -women on their relationship with a 60-year-old), was published. He also edited Een veilig Israel in een vreedzaam Midden-Oosten (A Safe Israel in a Peaceful Middle-East), which contains speeches (by Paul Bremer, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dan Meridor, Mark Rutte, Maxime Verhagen and others) held at an international conference in the Peace Palace in The Hague in March 2010. For feedback please post a comment, or send this blog's author an email.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

That terror does not distinguish between Jews and Arabs, Christian, Jews and Muslims we already knew. That Jews and Arabs stand side by side to take care of the victims of terror is also obvious to all of us. Yesterday these two truths came to light once more. Dr. Jalal Askar, who heads the emergency room at the Hillel Yaffeh hospital in Hadera and who happened to be on duty when the terror attack took place, had to establish the death of one of the victims, his childhood friend from the ( Arab ) village of Baqa al-Gharbiyah, Jamil Qa'adan, a 48-year old Hebrew teacher and father of five, who had come to the Hadera market to do some shopping and go to the bank.
Posted by Bert at 9:37 PM

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