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. He wrote one book (2008), and edited another (2011), both in Dutch. For feedback please post a comment, or send this blog's author an email: (hisdutchname)atyahoodotcom
Thursday, August 29, 2013
120,000, and still counting
With all the talk about a possible US-led attack against Syria, we tend to forget that the hundreds of citizens who were apparently murdered by nerve gas recently form only a small portion of the many tens of thousands of people who have been murdered in Syria in the last two years, as Caspian Makan points out in this article: "What is the difference between murder by a kitchen knife, a bullet, a rope or poisonous gas? Massacre, in whatever form it may be executed, is crossing a red line."
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