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.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Seekers of justice, demonstrators againts inequity...

These are busy times for those who pursue justice, fight against inequity, and feel an urgent need to protest whenever innocent civilians are killed. O.k., they happen to be on vacation when those civilians are Israelis, but I am sure that today's bombing in Baghdad - in which at least 35 people were murdered, who are just as innocent as 25% of the Palestinian victims of the war in Gaza - will bring those demonstrators back into the streets. Or do I have too much faith in the sincerity of their motives?
Posted by Bert at 2:49 PM

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