lennart
31-10-02, 16:06
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=225356&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=225356
De links Israelische krant Ha'aretz meldt dat Gretta op de thee gaat bij Yasser.
Het artikel is trouwens stukken better dan hoe de Nederlandse media dit media event heeft behandeld. Men maakt namelijk gebruik van hoor en wederhoor.
Paar intressante stukjes:
Next week, Gretta Duisenberg, wife of European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg, will visit the territories. Dozens of foreign journalists will cover her meetings with Yasser Arafat and with Israeli MKs. Duisenberg has been at the center of a storm of controversy ever since she hung a Palestinian flag from the balcony of her Amsterdam home six months ago.
Amsterdam's Jewish community was understandably less pleased about it all. Herman Lonstein, head of the Dutch Jewish Federation, told Time magazine: "It's even worse that the Palestinian flag should be displayed in a neighborhood from which so many Jews disappeared into the camps."
Zucht, wat heeft de Palestijnse vlag nu te maken met de verschrikkelijke kampen?
Two weeks ago, Gretta Duisenberg was caught up in another media frenzy. In June, she founded an organization called "Stop the Occupation." The organization published its petition on its Web site and in several large Dutch newspapers. It calls upon Israel to "unconditionally withdraw from all of the territories occupied in 1967 and implement all relevant UN resolutions."
De oproep van Gretta is duidelijk, een Israelische staat naast een Palestijnse Staat.
"From talking with her, I know that she regrets what she said," says Van Bommel. "She didn't think for a moment about the number six million in the context of Holocaust victims," says writer and journalist Milo Anstadt, a close friend of Wim Duisenberg. "I talk to her twice a week and I know that the six million number occurred to her because of the 6,000 signatures that were already collected. That was the connection. The media chose to focus on the six million and right away there was this big fuss about her being anti-Semitic and that's not true.
"She is not anti-Semitic. I'm a writer, I understand people. If she were anti-Semitic, I'd see it. I'm a Jew. During World War II, I was in the resistance movement in Holland and I survived thanks to my ability to smell danger. I'd pick up on anti-Semitism right away thanks to the senses that I developed during the war. Just as I know that my wife, who is Catholic, is not anti-Semitic, I know that Gretta Duisenberg is not anti-Semitic."
The use of the number six million makes Jews uneasy.
Anstadt: "There is a group of Jews in Holland who think that Israel is always right and they consider anyone who dares to criticize Israel's policy a traitor and anti-Semite. They also called me a traitor because I disagree with their views."
Goh. Komt die laatste zin even bekend voor.
De links Israelische krant Ha'aretz meldt dat Gretta op de thee gaat bij Yasser.
Het artikel is trouwens stukken better dan hoe de Nederlandse media dit media event heeft behandeld. Men maakt namelijk gebruik van hoor en wederhoor.
Paar intressante stukjes:
Next week, Gretta Duisenberg, wife of European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg, will visit the territories. Dozens of foreign journalists will cover her meetings with Yasser Arafat and with Israeli MKs. Duisenberg has been at the center of a storm of controversy ever since she hung a Palestinian flag from the balcony of her Amsterdam home six months ago.
Amsterdam's Jewish community was understandably less pleased about it all. Herman Lonstein, head of the Dutch Jewish Federation, told Time magazine: "It's even worse that the Palestinian flag should be displayed in a neighborhood from which so many Jews disappeared into the camps."
Zucht, wat heeft de Palestijnse vlag nu te maken met de verschrikkelijke kampen?
Two weeks ago, Gretta Duisenberg was caught up in another media frenzy. In June, she founded an organization called "Stop the Occupation." The organization published its petition on its Web site and in several large Dutch newspapers. It calls upon Israel to "unconditionally withdraw from all of the territories occupied in 1967 and implement all relevant UN resolutions."
De oproep van Gretta is duidelijk, een Israelische staat naast een Palestijnse Staat.
"From talking with her, I know that she regrets what she said," says Van Bommel. "She didn't think for a moment about the number six million in the context of Holocaust victims," says writer and journalist Milo Anstadt, a close friend of Wim Duisenberg. "I talk to her twice a week and I know that the six million number occurred to her because of the 6,000 signatures that were already collected. That was the connection. The media chose to focus on the six million and right away there was this big fuss about her being anti-Semitic and that's not true.
"She is not anti-Semitic. I'm a writer, I understand people. If she were anti-Semitic, I'd see it. I'm a Jew. During World War II, I was in the resistance movement in Holland and I survived thanks to my ability to smell danger. I'd pick up on anti-Semitism right away thanks to the senses that I developed during the war. Just as I know that my wife, who is Catholic, is not anti-Semitic, I know that Gretta Duisenberg is not anti-Semitic."
The use of the number six million makes Jews uneasy.
Anstadt: "There is a group of Jews in Holland who think that Israel is always right and they consider anyone who dares to criticize Israel's policy a traitor and anti-Semite. They also called me a traitor because I disagree with their views."
Goh. Komt die laatste zin even bekend voor.