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

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The 'king of kings' is dead, long live....?



Tom Janssen's view on the situation in Libya.




"Gadaffi's dead!! Long live ...eh...eh...well I have no idea..."

PS: I know that in Arabic his name is written with a 'qaf', but there many different ways in which it is written in English, and I don't have the time or the patience to check what is the correct one, if any.

Posted by Bert at 9:12 AM

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