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, November 19, 2011

Worth reading


Although I have neither the time nor the patience to sit and write long or short postings for this blog these days, I read a lot and keep informed about what is going on here and elsewhere in the world. Carlo Strenger and Bradley Burston have caught my attention (and, while I read their articles, received several nods of assent) recently with some of their work. One of the very few weblogs that I visit on a regular basis (once a week or more) is that of Rob Fransman, where I found the beautiful picture (Amsterdam, Spiegelgracht) that you can see at the top of this posting.
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