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, May 11, 2006

Lisa Goldman is possibly the best but certainly one of the most busy journalist-bloggers in Israel. I read about but did not really follow the story of Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, an Egyptian blogger who was arrested during a pro-democracy demonstration, but I totally trust Lisa's judgement, and when she asks to make a simple technical blog-gesture in order "to support democracy in the Middle East by participating 'en groupe' in the Google bomb campaign to help free Alaa" I am happy to comply with her request, although I have no idea how this works, and how it helps Mr Seif al-Islam or ME democracy.
Posted by Bert at 11:08 AM

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