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.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Three is company

Bringing together
Dutch cartoonist Joep Bertrams' view on the meeting between Barack Obama, Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Nethanyahu.
PS: Never mind the cynical comments and the low expectations about the meeting. One thing is for sure: in eight months Mr Obama has invested more personal energy in trying to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table than his predecessor did in eight years. That Obama is trying to re-kickstart those negotiations from a relatively weak position ( economic crisis, weakened international position of the US, internal political troubles ) is not exactly or mainly his own or his party's fault, I would say.
Posted by Bert at 2:41 PM

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