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.

Monday, July 17, 2006

I do not think that I will ever join a George W. Bush fanclub, but it seems that he is about the only Western leader who tells it like it is. During the G8 summit a remark that apparently was meant to remain between him and Tony Blair was picked up by a microphone: "See, the irony is, what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit - and it's over." I do not know who 'they' are, but I appreciate his bluntness and perception.
Posted by Bert at 5:13 PM

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