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.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Recommended reading

Two articles that I read in Ha'Aretz, today and yesterday. One by Bradley Burston ( which I liked, though it contains a lot of wishful thinking, see for example points 2, 4, 5 ), the other by Benjamin Hartman, about yet another ( arrogant ) campaign to lure Diaspora Jews to come and visit Israel. There are too many reasons for too many Israelis to think about trying their luck, building their lives and starting/taking their families abroad. I think that we should first try to make Israel a ( more ) attractive home and better functioning state for Israelis, before we try to convince Diaspora Jews that they belong here and that this country is a great place to study, work and live.
Posted by Bert at 9:10 AM

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