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, September 07, 2009

They ( and we ) deserve more than this

As much as I think that Israel should have ( better ) leaders, some countries are even worse off than we are. I really feel sorry for the Iranians. What else but pity and sympathy can you feel for the people of a country in which ' universities' are ruled by angry bearded fanatics, and where being an internationally wanted terrorist does not disqualify you for a senior minister's post ( au contraire ), while once having been photographed next to an ( Arab- ) Israeli minister does? If the people of Iran had honestly elected those fanatics maybe we could say "They got what they deserve", but after the latest elections I do not think it would be fair to believe and say that anymore. Just as I do not believe that the people of Gaza get what they deserve: a majority of them voted to have Hamas in the government, but not for Hamas to take brutal and total control of their lives.
Posted by Bert at 3:11 PM

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