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, September 13, 2009

" I will not accept the status quo as a solution "

For us in Europe and Israel it is difficult to fully understand and appreciate the ongoing public debate about health care reform that is going on in America these days. If I was an American, I most probably would fully support my President on this issue. Last week, once again I was impressed with a speech by Mr Obama. Hopefully, pretty soon he will deliver a similar speech on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In such a speech, he could absolutely recycle the following lines from last week's address: "I won't stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what's in this plan, we will call you out. And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time; not now. "
Posted by Bert at 11:51 AM

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