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, October 19, 2011

Tell me who your enemies are

Look at some of the absolutely sick feedbacks to this article, most of them written by people far far away from here, and you will understand that some of our staunchest so-called supporters should actually be counted among our worst enemies. As long as we suffer and turn our suffering into hatred and violence we are their heroes and allies, but the moment one of us tries to find a humane and very human way out of her pain and grief she becomes the focus of their vitriolic attacks.


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