Do not believe everything that you read in the newspaper ( or on a website, this blog included ). On the website of Ha'Aretz the caption of this picture says " An Israel Arab carrying a sign reading 'We are all brothers', at a protest Saturday in Nazareth". My Arabic is a bit rusty, but I had no problem reading the sign, which says something different, although the message is similar: "We won't give up peaceful coexistence". I am unable to read the small letters in the middle, but I cannot see any words there that say 'brothers' or 'all'.
Tomorrow at this hour I will be flying with our daughter, somewhere above Austria or the former Jugoslavia I think. This morning I sent an election t-shirt of the Labor party plus a Kadimah sticker to a friend of mine in Holland, and if all goes well I will arrive in the Netherlands before the envelope. Be'Ezrath Hashem my next posting will be posted from my parents' house.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. He wrote one book (2008), and edited another (2011), both in Dutch. For feedback please post a comment, or send this blog's author an email: (hisdutchname)atyahoodotcom
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Do not believe everything that you read in the newspaper ( or on a website, this blog included ). On the website of Ha'Aretz the caption of this picture says " An Israel Arab carrying a sign reading 'We are all brothers', at a protest Saturday in Nazareth". My Arabic is a bit rusty, but I had no problem reading the sign, which says something different, although the message is similar: "We won't give up peaceful coexistence". I am unable to read the small letters in the middle, but I cannot see any words there that say 'brothers' or 'all'.
Tomorrow at this hour I will be flying with our daughter, somewhere above Austria or the former Jugoslavia I think. This morning I sent an election t-shirt of the Labor party plus a Kadimah sticker to a friend of mine in Holland, and if all goes well I will arrive in the Netherlands before the envelope. Be'Ezrath Hashem my next posting will be posted from my parents' house.
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