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

Mazal tov

Congratulations to Shmuel Maoz and the other makers of 'Lebanon', for winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. I have not seen the movie yet, but I heard and read a lot about it. The idea behind it - presenting the audience with a 'view' of First Lebanon War from inside an Israeli tank, making viewers identify with the four crew members - sounds brilliant, according to many critics it really works. Never mind the pretty predictable comments by some Ynet feedbackers and their ilk.
Posted by Bert at 12:10 PM

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